linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ubi: fastmap: Check each mapping only once

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Message-ID: <20181202153244.GJ221015@sasha-vm>
Date:   Sun, 2 Dec 2018 10:32:44 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:     Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        martin.kepplinger@...zinger.com, Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Juergen <juergen.lachmann@...man.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubi: fastmap: Check each mapping only once

On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 04:02:47PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>Sasha,
>
>Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2018, 15:35:43 CET schrieb Sasha Levin:
>> On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:50:33AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> >> > Now queued up for 4.14.y, thanks.
>> >>
>> >> can you *please* slow a little down?
>> >
>> >True. It will really help if you can have some sort of fixed schedule
>> >for stable release, like maybe stablerc is ready on Thursday or Friday
>> >and release the stable on Monday. Having a weekend in stablerc will be
>> >helpful for people like me who only get the time in weekends for
>> >upstream or stable kernel.
>>
>> Any sort of schedule will never work for everyone (for example, if it's
>> part of your paid job - you don't necessarily want to review stuff over
>> the weekend).
>
>a schedule is not needed, but please give maintainers at least a chance
>to react on stable inclusion request.
>In this case Martin asked for inclusion on Monday and the patch was applied
>two days later.
>
>As you noted not everyone works full time on the kernel and gets paid for that.
>So it might take a few days to react and review such a request.

Yes, that's fair, I wasn't arguing against that.

--
Thanks,
Sasha