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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Missing patch from stable [3/7]
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:12:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080609171253.GI30402@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212936622.4020.236.camel@tucsk>

* Miklos Szeredi (mszeredi@suse.cz) wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 14:29 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Well, you know the implications of leaving these known bugs open more than
> > me. If you think some of them are really not needed, I'm fine with this,
> > but some definitely fix real bugs (judging by the code and the comments).
> 
> Yeah.  Perhaps there should also be a rule, that -stable patches for
> EXPERIMENTAL stuff (like ecryptfs) are automatically rejected.  And then
> they wouldn't increase the workload for the people collecting/reviewing
> the stable series.

Both users and distros enable code marked EXPERIMENTAL.  It's not
that uncommon for code to get stuck in EXPERIMENTAL long after it's in
general use.

thanks,
-chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-09 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-08  8:59 Missing patch from stable [3/7] Willy Tarreau
2008-06-08 11:11 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-08 12:29   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-06-08 14:50     ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-08 14:53       ` Willy Tarreau
2008-06-09 17:12       ` Chris Wright [this message]
2008-06-09 18:56         ` [stable] " Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-09 18:37   ` Michael Halcrow

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