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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Jochen Striepe <jochen@tolot.escape.de>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	lwn@lwn.net, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposed stable release changes
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:16:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130821201600.GA10321@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130821200702.GA10762@nazgul.tnic>

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:07:03PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 01:58:16PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > The point I'm making, we should be more reluctant in pulling patches
> > into stable as quick as we are. A patch ideally should simmer in
> > linux-next for a bit, then go into mainline.
> 
> Oh, and it is really debatable if the sheer volume of -stable patches is
> actually warranted - several people already raised the question whether
> we should be more conservative with the stable tag. But you're probably
> going to have this as one of the topics at KS...

And I pushed back on that.  Which specific stable patch should _not_
have been included?

I am going to be pickier (and already have, as some maintainers have
found out), with what I accept, but so far, the number of patches I've
rejected can be counted on one hand, a very small percentage of the
overall number of stable patches.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-21 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-20 22:40 Proposed stable release changes Greg KH
2013-08-20 22:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-20 23:12   ` Greg KH
2013-08-20 23:57     ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-21  5:24     ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-20 23:04 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-08-20 23:12   ` Greg KH
2013-08-20 23:11 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-20 23:17   ` Greg KH
2013-08-21  0:11     ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-21  0:42       ` Greg KH
2013-08-20 23:40 ` Josh Boyer
2013-08-20 23:57   ` Greg KH
2013-08-21  0:41     ` Josh Boyer
2013-08-21  0:49       ` Greg KH
2013-08-21  1:03         ` Josh Boyer
2013-08-21  1:11           ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-21 18:15           ` Greg KH
2013-08-21  5:38         ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-21 13:37           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-21 17:23             ` Jochen Striepe
2013-08-21 17:58               ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-21 20:07                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-21 20:16                   ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-08-21 21:00                     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-21 13:42       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-21 14:17         ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-21 14:54           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-24 18:45             ` Stefan Richter
2013-08-21 13:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-21 17:08   ` Greg KH
2013-08-21 18:20 ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-21 18:36   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-21 20:00     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-21 20:54       ` Tony Luck
2013-08-22  8:57         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-22 10:59         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-08-22  0:05     ` Stephen Rothwell

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