linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

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Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 06:15:51 +0900
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>,
        "ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "w@....eu" <w@....eu>,
        "julia.lawall@...6.fr" <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 04:54:48PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> I do think it's about AUTOSEL, because when I'm dealing with a
> regression, I want to get it fixed fast.  Because the alternative is
> the merge-window commit getting reverted.  AUTOSEL seems wants perfect
> patches that it can cherry pick once, as opposed to a case where if the
> user confirms that it fixes the regression, I want to send it to Linus
> quickly.  I do *not* want it to marinate in linux-next for 1-2 weeks.
> I would much rather that *stable* hold off on picking up the patch for
> 1-2 weeks, but get it fixed in Linux HEAD sooner.  If that means that
> the regression fix needs a further clean up, so be it.

We've had issues with the automated testing systems in the past where a
maintainer has had a policy of letting things percoltate for a week
before sending to Linus and there's been a bug that caused a substantial
set of tests to fail to run (generally it's something that had unnoticed
dependencies in -next so wasn't caught there) - we essentially end up
not getting the affected bits of test coverage for that period of time
which is not helpful.

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