From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933656Ab1JZQjU (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:39:20 -0400 Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.22.20]:39823 "HELO oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932982Ab1JZQjS (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:39:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4EA837AD.6070700@xenotime.net> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:39:09 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: YPO4 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Galbraith CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, lwn@lwn.net Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.8 References: <20111025051928.GA7997@kroah.com> <4EA64BDC.8050709@xenotime.net> <20111025070240.GB9415@suse.de> <14295.1319532063@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1319616850.4829.28.camel@marge.simson.net> In-Reply-To: <1319616850.4829.28.camel@marge.simson.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/26/11 01:14, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 04:41 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:02:40 +0200, Greg KH said: >>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:40:44PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>>> On 10/24/11 22:19, Greg KH wrote: >>>>> All users of the 3.0 kernel series must upgrade. >>>> I noticed that "must" word in 3.0.7 also. Please explain. >>> Nothing new, I've been saying that for years. >> >> I think Randy means that out of the 29 commits for .7->.8, there's only one >> (Hugh Dicken's mremap fix) and *maybe* Peter Zijlstra's cputimer fix, which >> even *possibly* rise to the "all users" level, as everything else is against >> XFS or CIFS or ARM or something else that's not an across-the-board issue. >> >> And the changelog for the mremap commit says that "but this lucky report >> hints", which sort of implies it's a very hard-to-hit bug that nobody even knew >> was there. >> >> So it's not obvious from just the shortlog that it's a "MUST upgrade" category. > > Seems like perfectly fine boilerplate to me. If I want the warmest > fuzzy I can get, I must upgrade. Peter's patch fixed a box killer that > I don't care to hit (dead bugs being kinda boring), so I must upgrade. Sure, if it's just boilerplate, that's fine. My mistake was thinking that it was something new & different. -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***