Re: [PATCH 0/3] dell-wmi: Don't send unneeded keypresses

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Ok, I agree that it is subjective how serious it is...
> > > > Just to remind that patch fixing problem described in
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05922.ht
> > > > ml
> > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05924.h
> > > > tml
> > > 
> > > I don't have any objection to sending this back to stable.
> > > Stable is for fixing REAL bugs, as opposed to theorhetical
> > > races, etc. This is a "real" bug.
> > > 
> > > As to not chaning behavior, if it's OK for mainline, it's OK
> > > for stable. At least that is my understanding of it. Folks
> > > are free to verify with Greg if they disagree.
> > 
> > Darren, so how you decided? Now when patches are in linus tree, 
> > are you going to send them to stable tree?
> 
> Please don't. -stable is for serious mainline bugs people are actually
> hitting. Null pointer dereference counts, if people actually hit
> it. This is more behaviour change, and yes, the new behaviour is
> better, but it is really different class.

Sometimes the old behavior is something that is a major pain for users and
userspace.  In that case, where the new behavior fixes really annoying
usecase bugs, the fix belongs in -stable IMHO.

Broken behavior hits, by definition, every user of the feature after all.

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  Henrique Holschuh