linux-kernel - Re: Modules updates for v5.17-rc1

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Message-ID: <Yebn8wWvCa4T6ppC@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:16:51 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Yu Chen <chen.yu@...ystack.cn>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modules updates for v5.17-rc1

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 07:38:25AM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 2:20 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Although this change was only merged on January 11th, the patches have
> > been being reviewed since early december. There was at least one fix
> > already found for it and merged.
> 
> Grr..
> 
> And that's exactly why it matters not about "being reviewed", but when
> they were in linux-next etc.
> 
> I've pulled this, but consider this a complaint. Things should not be
> "reviewed" before the merge window. They should be ready and merged
> and have actually seen some testing.
> 
> Review is good. But nothing beats actually being out there and
> actually seeing real-life testing (of course, linux-next probably
> mostly gets build-testing, but what testing it gets is still better
> than not being there).

Understood, that gives me a better ballpark idea of when to defer
things for a next release. Thanks for the feedback.

  Luis