Re: [PATCH]vmscan: handle underflow for get_scan_ratio

Rik van Riel
2010-04-06T03:37:47Z

On 04/02/2010 05:13 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>> Yeah, I don't want ignore .33-stable too. if I can't find the root cause
>>> in 2-3 days, I'll revert guilty patch anyway.
>>>
>>
>> It's a good idea to avoid fixing a bug one-way-in-stable,
>> other-way-in-mainline. Because then we have new code in both trees
>> which is different. And the -stable guys sensibly like to see code get
>> a bit of a shakedown in mainline before backporting it.
>>
>> So it would be better to merge the "simple" patch into mainline, tagged
>> for -stable backporting. Then we can later implement the larger fix in
>> mainline, perhaps starting by reverting the "simple" fix.
>
> .....ok. I don't have to prevent your code maintainship. although I still
> think we need to fix the issue completely.

Agreed on the revert.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>