netdev - Re: [GIT] Networking

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Message-ID: <20170831065204.GA17812@amd>
Date:   Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:52:04 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking

On Thu 2017-08-31 07:44:58, Kalle Valo wrote:
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:
> 
> > From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
> > Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:31:31 +0300
> >
> >> AFAICS the bug was introduced by 9df86e2e702c6 back in 2010. If the bug
> >> has been there for 7 years so waiting for a few more weeks should not
> >> hurt.
> >
> > As a maintainer you have a right to handle bug fixing in that way, but
> > certainly that is not how I would handle this.
> >
> > It's easy to validate this fix, it's extremely unlikely to cause
> > a regression, and fixes a problem someone actually was able to
> > trigger.
> >
> > Deferring to -next only has the side effect of making people wait
> > longer for the fix.
> 
> Yeah, you are right there. I did actually ponder which I tree should
> commit it back in July but due to various reasons decided differently.

Can we still get the fix to v4.13-final? :-).

Thanks,
									Pavel
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