From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479FEC4361B for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D3F22955 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730590AbgLDQM7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2020 11:12:59 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0130.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.130]:44912 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729032AbgLDQM6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2020 11:12:58 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D69180A9F34; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:12:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: hen76_3903285273c5 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 3208 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.137.21]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf18.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:12:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <235b856857d912d93ea00685b20baa5b66800c83.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper From: Joe Perches To: Sasha Levin , Paolo Bonzini , James Bottomley Cc: Mike Christie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Jason Wang , "Michael S . Tsirkin" , Stefan Hajnoczi , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:12:13 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20201204154911.GZ643756@sasha-vm> References: <20201129041314.GO643756@sasha-vm> <7a4c3d84-8ff7-abd9-7340-3a6d7c65cfa7@redhat.com> <20201129210650.GP643756@sasha-vm> <20201130173832.GR643756@sasha-vm> <238cbdd1-dabc-d1c1-cff8-c9604a0c9b95@redhat.com> <9ec7dff6-d679-ce19-5e77-f7bcb5a63442@oracle.com> <4c1b2bc7-cf50-4dcd-bfd4-be07e515de2a@redhat.com> <20201130235959.GS643756@sasha-vm> <6c49ded5-bd8f-f219-0c51-3500fd751633@redhat.com> <20201204154911.GZ643756@sasha-vm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2020-12-04 at 10:49 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 09:27:28AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 01/12/20 00:59, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > > > > It's quite easy to NAK a patch too, just reply saying "no" and it'll be > > > dropped (just like this patch was dropped right after your first reply) > > > so the burden on maintainers is minimal. > > > > The maintainers are _already_ marking patches with "Cc: stable". That > > They're not, though. Some forget, some subsystems don't mark anything, > some don't mark it as it's not stable material when it lands in their > tree but then it turns out to be one if it sits there for too long. > > > (plus backports) is where the burden on maintainers should start and > > end. I don't see the need to second guess them. > > This is similar to describing our CI infrastructure as "second > guessing": why are we second guessing authors and maintainers who are > obviously doing the right thing by testing their patches and reporting > issues to them? > > Are you saying that you have always gotten stable tags right? never > missed a stable tag where one should go? I think this simply adds to the burden of being a maintainer without all that much value. I think the primary value here would be getting people to upgrade to current versions rather than backporting to nominally stable and relatively actively changed old versions. This is very much related to this thread about trivial patches and maintainer burdening: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1c7d7fde126bc0acf825766de64bf2f9b888f216.camel@HansenPartnership.com/