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([2001:b07:6468:f312:c8dd:75d4:99ab:290a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f25sm8943114edr.53.2020.11.30.06.00.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 06:00:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper To: Greg KH Cc: Sasha Levin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Mike Christie , Jason Wang , "Michael S . Tsirkin" , Stefan Hajnoczi , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20201125153550.810101-22-sashal@kernel.org> <25cd0d64-bffc-9506-c148-11583fed897c@redhat.com> <20201125180102.GL643756@sasha-vm> <9670064e-793f-561e-b032-75b1ab5c9096@redhat.com> <20201129041314.GO643756@sasha-vm> <7a4c3d84-8ff7-abd9-7340-3a6d7c65cfa7@redhat.com> <20201129210650.GP643756@sasha-vm> <17481d8c-c19d-69e3-653d-63a9efec2591@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <8809319f-7c5b-1e85-f77c-bbc3f22951e4@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:00:13 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On 30/11/20 14:57, Greg KH wrote: >> Every patch should be "fixing a real issue"---even a new feature. But the >> larger the patch, the more the submitters and maintainers should be trusted >> rather than a bot. The line between feature and bugfix_sometimes_ is >> blurry, I would say that in this case it's not, and it makes me question how >> the bot decided that this patch would be acceptable for stable (which AFAIK >> is not something that can be answered). > I thought that earlier Sasha said that this patch was needed as a > prerequisite patch for a later fix, right? If not, sorry, I've lost the > train of thought in this thread... Yeah---sorry I am replying to 22/33 but referring to 23/33, which is the one that in my opinion should not be blindly accepted for stable kernels without the agreement of the submitter or maintainer. Paolo