From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>,
mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] dell-wmi: Don't send unneeded keypresses
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:11:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141220151108.GA11752@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201412201010.18151@pali>
Hi!
> > > Ok, I agree that it is subjective how serious it is...
> > > Just to remind that patch fixing problem described in
> > >
> > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05922.ht
> > > ml
> > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05924.h
> > > tml
> >
> > I don't have any objection to sending this back to stable.
> > Stable is for fixing REAL bugs, as opposed to theorhetical
> > races, etc. This is a "real" bug.
> >
> > As to not chaning behavior, if it's OK for mainline, it's OK
> > for stable. At least that is my understanding of it. Folks
> > are free to verify with Greg if they disagree.
>
> Darren, so how you decided? Now when patches are in linus tree,
> are you going to send them to stable tree?
Please don't. -stable is for serious mainline bugs people are actually
hitting. Null pointer dereference counts, if people actually hit
it. This is more behaviour change, and yes, the new behaviour is
better, but it is really different class.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-20 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-03 23:16 [PATCH 0/3] dell-wmi: Don't send unneeded keypresses Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-03 13:34 ` Darren Hart
2014-12-05 20:31 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-05 20:41 ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-05 21:07 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-03 18:03 ` Darren Hart
2014-12-20 9:10 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-20 15:11 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2014-12-20 16:16 ` Darren Hart
2014-12-20 17:03 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-20 20:18 ` Darren Hart
2014-12-20 16:28 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-12-20 16:58 ` Darren Hart
[not found] ` <CAHYPw2FVniWP-7e3K905Xd5yh2zK-ytTD0z3CwwqZFTqMX5kXA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-20 18:55 ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-03 23:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] dell-wmi: Use appropriate keycode for radio state changes Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-03 23:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] dell-wmi: Don't report keypresses " Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-03 23:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] dell-wmi: Don't report keypresses on keybord illumination change Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-03 23:31 ` Pali Rohár
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