linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is requested

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Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2016 14:24:00 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stable tree <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is
 requested

On Mon 05-12-16 14:15:57, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:05:08PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > That's not a problem in that I know I like to see them to give me a
> > > "heads up" that something is coming down the pipeline soon.
> > 
> > Are you really tracking all those discussion to catch resulting patches
> > in the Linus' tree? I simply fail to see a point having N versions of
> > the patch on the stable mailing list before it gets picked up from the
> > _Linus'_ anyayw.
> > 
> > > I don't think anyone has ever complained of this before, do you?
> > 
> > This is the reason I have stopped following the stable mailing list.
> > The noise level is just too high.
> 
> I personally have mixed opinion on this. I agree that there's too much
> "noise" on the list, but at the same time I would probably be even more
> clueless about patches I receive if I didn't have this noise.

Is this because patches that you are receiving do not have the full
context?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs