From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id qB6HP0FT139118 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:25:00 -0600 Message-ID: <50C0D57A.9000704@sgi.com> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:27:22 -0600 From: Mark Tinguely MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [3.0-stable PATCH 00/36] Proposed 3.0-stable bug patches References: <20121203144208.143464631@sgi.com> <20121205214505.GG29399@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20121205214505.GG29399@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On 12/05/12 15:45, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 05:42:08PM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote: >> Here a collection of bug fixes for 3.0-stable. Many of these patches >> were also selected by Dave Chinner as possible 3.0-stable patches: >> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-08/msg00255.html >> >> I chose only bug fixes and kept the changes to a minimum. >> >> Patch 21/22 are required for the bug fix in patch 23 but they are >> important changes in their own right. > > So I'll ask the same question that Christoph asked me: If nobody is > reporting problems on 3.0.x, why do this and risk regression and > fallout that requires fixing? > > FWIW, what testing have you done? > > Cheers, > > Dave. Do you mean? http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-09/msg00002.html I read that message as a concern that your original Linux 3.0-stable patch series contained some items that did not meet the -stable criteria. As for adding patches to 3.0-stable. I believed then and now that proactively suggesting bug fixes into 3.0-stable is a good thing because it is the long term stable branch. A few days after Christoph's email, I put my "Reviewed-by:" on your series. http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-09/msg00167.html As for testing, the whole series is spun on xfstests loops for days on x86_32 and x86_64 boxes, just like we test a top of tree patch series. --Mark. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs