Re: [ 000/150] 3.8.1-stable review

Satoru Takeuchi
2013-02-28T22:27:02Z

At Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:24:20 -0800,
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:51:32PM +0900, Satoru Takeuchi wrote:
> > At Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:50:03 -0700,
> > Shuah Khan wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.1 release.
> > > > There are 150 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Responses should be made by Thu Feb 28 23:52:34 UTC 2013.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > Greg, 3.8.1 is already released although now is only "Thu Feb 28 14:45:19 UTC 2013".
> > Is there any rule to move up the deadline? I encountered such situation several
> > times and didn't understand why it happened.
>
> It happens sometimes due to my travel schedule, and based on how "good"
> I think this release is. 3.8.1 had a bunch of fixes in it that people
> really needed (myself included, it fixed resume on my main travel
> laptop), and I'm staring at a bunch more 3.8-stable patches that need to
> get queued up, so I did the release a few hours early.
>
> Hope this helps,

Got it. Thank you for your explanation. I continue to this review on the
best effor basis. So sometimes skip some versions due to lack of my
free time :-)

Thanks,
Satoru