Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16T00:25:51Z

On 07/15/2013 05:21 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> However, it doesn't seem to happen too often, but it does underscore the
>> need for a maintainer to be able to *retroactively* NAK a patch for
>> stable, if it is uncovered that it isn't appropriate after all.
>
> I give maintainers 2 different chances to NAK a patch, and if they miss
> those, I can also easily revert a patch that got applied and do a new
> release, which I have done in the past.
>

Yes, it doesn't actually seem to be a problem in practice.

In other words, the current system seems to work well, and unless
someone wants to show cases where it doesn't work I don't see a reason
to switch it...

-hpa