Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] docs: 6.Followthrough.rst: interaction with stable wrt to regressions

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> writes:

> Add a few notes on how the interaction with the stable team works when
> it comes to mainline regressions that also affect stable series.
>
> This removes equivalent paragraphs from a section in
> Documentation/process/handling-regressions.rst, which will become mostly
> obsolete through this and follow-up changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst     | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../process/handling-regressions.rst          | 19 ----------------
>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst b/Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst
> index f9ae3a86ee0c49..763a80d21240f0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst
> @@ -234,6 +234,28 @@ On procedure:
>     requests again should ideally come directly from maintainers or happen in
>     accordance with them.
>  
> +Regarding stable and longterm series:
> +
> + - You are free to leave handling regressions to the stable team if the problem
> +   at no point in time occurred with mainline or was fixed there already.
> +
> + - When receiving reports about regressions in recent stable or longterm kernel
> +   series, consider evaluating at least briefly if the issue might happen in
> +   current mainline as well -- and if that seems likely, take hold of the
> +   report.  If in doubt, ask the reporter to check mainline.
> +
> + - Fix regressions quickly in mainline, whenever you want to swiftly resolve one
> +   that recently made it into a mainline, stable, or longterm release; in urgent
> +   cases hence involve Linus to fast-track fixes (see above).  This route is

I'm not quite sure what that sentence is intended to say.  Might
something like s/quickly/first/ better convey the intent?  Maybe also
s/want/need/ ?

Thanks,

jon