Re: [PATCH] ubi: fastmap: Check each mapping only once

Martin Kepplinger
2018-12-04T07:39:26Z

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On 02.12.18 16:02, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Sasha,
>
> Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2018, 15:35:43 CET schrieb Sasha Levin:
>> On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:50:33AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>>>>> Now queued up for 4.14.y, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> can you *please* slow a little down?
>>>
>>> True. It will really help if you can have some sort of fixed schedule
>>> for stable release, like maybe stablerc is ready on Thursday or Friday
>>> and release the stable on Monday. Having a weekend in stablerc will be
>>> helpful for people like me who only get the time in weekends for
>>> upstream or stable kernel.
>>
>> Any sort of schedule will never work for everyone (for example, if it's
>> part of your paid job - you don't necessarily want to review stuff over
>> the weekend).
>
> a schedule is not needed, but please give maintainers at least a chance
> to react on stable inclusion request.
> In this case Martin asked for inclusion on Monday and the patch was applied
> two days later.

True, especially when the maintainer is asked a question as part of the
patch.

I've already had the feeling that we'd need the other patch too, but in
this case at least I should have searched for Fixes tags.

Greg, how about reminding people of Fixes tags in
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst ?

martin

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