netdev - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper

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Date:   Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:29:02 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper

On 30/11/20 20:44, Mike Christie wrote:
> I have never seen a public/open-source vhost-scsi testsuite.
> 
> For patch 23 (the one that adds the lun reset support which is built on
> patch 22), we can't add it to stable right now if you wanted to, because
> it has a bug in it. Michael T, sent the fix:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git/commit/?h=linux-next&id=b4fffc177fad3c99ee049611a508ca9561bb6871
> 
> to Linus today.

Ok, so at least it was only a close call and anyway not for something 
that most people would be running on their machines.  But it still seems 
to me that the state of CI in Linux is abysmal compared to what is 
needed to arbitrarily(*) pick up patches and commit them to "stable" trees.

Paolo

(*) A ML bot is an arbitrary choice as far as we are concerned since we 
cannot know how it makes a decision.