Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes

Linus Torvalds
2018-04-16T19:31:11Z

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> If you know of the fix, fine. But clearly people DID NOT KNOW. So
> reverting was the right choice.

.. and this is obviously different in stable and in mainline.

For example, I start reverting very aggressively only at the end of a
release. If I get a bisected bug report in the last week, I generally
revert without much argument, unless the author of the patch has an
immediate fix.

In contrast, during the merge window and the early rc's, I'm perfectly
happy to say "ok, let's see if somebody can fix this" and not really
consider a revert.

But the -stable tree?

Seriously, what do you expect them to do if they get a report that a
commit they added to the stable tree regresses?

"Revert first, ask questions later" is definitely a very sane model there.

Linus