From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753355AbcCANAd (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2016 08:00:33 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:32395 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750827AbcCANAb (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2016 08:00:31 -0500 To: Finn Thain Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , James Bottomley , Michael Schmitz , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] ncr5380: Exception handling fixes for v4.5 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <20160222230703.994951661@telegraphics.com.au> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:00:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Finn Thain's message of "Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:32:23 +1100 (AEDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Finn" == Finn Thain writes: Finn, >> This is a pretty big lump of changes for a 4.5 bug fix! Finn> Please keep in mind that these fixes are all rework of the changes Finn> I made in -rc1. So this submission is 2 files changed, 118 Finn> insertions(+), 148 deletions(-) which is all rework of the Finn> previous submission, which was 18 files changed, 2940 Finn> insertions(+), 3688 deletions(-) I am well aware of and appreciate the huge amount of work you have done. My concern is merely that Linus is going to get pretty upset with such a big delta this late in the 4.5 cycle. By comparison, our other fixes at this time are in the 1-5 line bucket! I think putting the fixes into 4.6 and tagging them for stable is a better (less emperor penguin wrath-inducing) approach. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering