From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-f199.google.com (mail-wr0-f199.google.com [209.85.128.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20EC96B0012 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:59:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wr0-f199.google.com with SMTP id d15so4862463wra.5 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:59:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. [195.113.26.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q190si6159254wmd.208.2018.04.16.09.58.58 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:58:57 +0200 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes Message-ID: <20180416165857.GC9807@amd> References: <20180416093058.6edca0bb@gandalf.local.home> <20180416153031.GA5039@amd> <20180416155031.GX2341@sasha-vm> <20180416160608.GA7071@amd> <20180416122019.1c175925@gandalf.local.home> <20180416162757.GB2341@sasha-vm> <20180416163952.GA8740@amd> <20180416164310.GF2341@sasha-vm> <20180416125307.0c4f6f28@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180416125307.0c4f6f28@gandalf.local.home> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sasha Levin , Linus Torvalds , Petr Mladek , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Cong Wang , Dave Hansen , Johannes Weiner , Mel Gorman , Michal Hocko , Vlastimil Babka , Peter Zijlstra , Jan Kara , Mathieu Desnoyers , Tetsuo Handa , Byungchul Park , Tejun Heo , Greg KH --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon 2018-04-16 12:53:07, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:43:13 +0000 > Sasha Levin wrote: >=20 > > >If you are worried about people not putting enough "Stable: " tags in > > >their commits, perhaps you can write them emails "hey, I think this > > >should go to stable, do you agree"? You should get people marking > > >their commits themselves pretty quickly... =20 > >=20 > > Greg has been doing this for years, ask him how that worked out for him. >=20 > Then he shouldn't pull in the fix. Let it be broken. As soon as someone > complains about it being broken, then bug the maintainer again. "Hey, > this is broken in 4.x, and this looks like the fix for it. Do you > agree?" >=20 > I agree that some patches don't need this discussion. Things that are > obvious. Off-by-one and stack-overflow and other bugs like that. Or > another common bug is error paths that don't release locks. These > should just be backported. But subtle fixes like this thread should > default to (not backport unless someones complains or the > author/maintainer acks it). Agreed. And it scares me we are even discussing this. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlrU1lEACgkQMOfwapXb+vLbpACgiQyEJcGYB3C8JRLh9fzRBOui GUkAoJ6z5s4gm1VYxIloiLVXJnqKaDJe =vmwF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU--