From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:21:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130716002128.GA9278@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E49036.5000901@zytor.com>
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:13:42PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 04:22 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >
> > I agree, _should_. But again, that is not the point I was trying to make.
> > The keyword is _active_ decision vs. passive acceptance of a stable tag.
> >
> > If the stable tag is not added by the maintainer, it can always be added to
> > the stable queue after the code was pushed upstream. Nothing lost but a bit
> > of convenience.
> >
>
> ... and yet another opportunity for things to fall between the cracks,
> which is in my opinion MUCH more likely than something inappropriate
> being tagged Cc: stable.
>
> However, it doesn't seem to happen too often, but it does underscore the
> need for a maintainer to be able to *retroactively* NAK a patch for
> stable, if it is uncovered that it isn't appropriate after all.
I give maintainers 2 different chances to NAK a patch, and if they miss
those, I can also easily revert a patch that got applied and do a new
release, which I have done in the past.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 0:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-15 19:27 KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag James Bottomley
2013-07-15 19:45 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 19:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 20:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 21:09 ` Joe Perches
2013-07-15 21:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 21:34 ` Joe Perches
2013-07-21 4:06 ` Rob Landley
2013-07-15 21:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 20:15 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-15 21:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 20:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-15 22:04 ` David Woodhouse
2013-07-15 22:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-15 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 23:22 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-16 0:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 0:21 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-07-16 0:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 15:50 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-07-15 20:20 ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-15 21:44 ` Greg KH
2013-07-15 21:55 ` Greg KH
2013-07-15 22:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 23:08 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 0:40 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-16 9:06 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-15 22:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 0:06 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 2:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 2:41 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 3:27 ` Dave Airlie
2013-07-16 3:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 4:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 6:23 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 6:10 ` James Bottomley
2013-07-16 6:28 ` Greg KH
2013-07-15 22:22 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-15 23:40 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 2:30 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 6:13 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 9:11 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-16 16:36 ` Greg KH
2013-07-17 3:53 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-17 4:24 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 5:17 ` James Bottomley
2013-07-16 6:20 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 7:43 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " James Bottomley
2013-07-16 9:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-16 9:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-16 12:43 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 16:35 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 23:15 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-16 13:14 ` Josh Boyer
2013-07-17 15:08 ` John W. Linville
2013-07-18 7:45 ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-16 10:02 ` Jan Kara
2013-07-16 6:24 ` David Lang
2013-07-16 16:45 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 2:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 9:53 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-21 4:11 ` Rob Landley
2013-07-21 15:09 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Ben Hutchings
2013-07-22 21:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-07-23 2:29 ` Li Zefan
2013-07-23 2:29 ` Li Zefan
2013-07-23 2:40 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-07-23 2:40 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-07-23 2:47 ` James Bottomley
2013-07-23 2:57 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-07-23 2:57 ` Myklebust, Trond
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