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

Jiri Kosina
2018-04-16T21:28:51Z

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Sasha Levin wrote:

> I agree that as an enterprise distro taking everything from -stable
> isn't the best idea. Ideally you'd want to be close to the first
> extreme you've mentioned and only take commits if customers are asking
> you to do so.
>
> I think that the rule we're trying to agree upon is the "It must fix
> a real bug that bothers people".
>
> I think that we can agree that it's impossible to expect every single
> Linux user to go on LKML and complain about a bug he encountered, so the
> rule quickly becomes "It must fix a real bug that can bother people".

So is there a reason why stable couldn't become some hybrid-form union of

- really critical issues (data corruption, boot issues, severe security
issues) taken from bleeding edge upstream
- [reviewed] cherry-picks of functional fixes from major distro kernels
(based on that very -stable release), as that's apparently what people
are hitting in the real world with that particular kernel

?

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs