From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 15:59:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201205205900.GD643756@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d071d714-3ebd-6929-3f3b-c941cce109f8@redhat.com>
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 06:08:13PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>On 04/12/20 16:49, 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.
>
>That means some subsystems will be worse as far as stable release
>support goes. That's not a problem:
>
>- some subsystems have people paid to do backports to LTS releases
>when patches don't apply; others don't, if the patch doesn't apply the
>bug is simply not fixed in LTS releases
Why not? A warning mail is originated and folks fix those up. I fixed a
whole bunch of these myself for subsystems I'm not "paid" to do so.
>- some subsystems are worse than others even in "normal" releases :)
Agree with that.
>>>(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?
>
>No, it's not the same. CI helps finding bugs before you have to waste
>time spending bisecting regressions across thousands of commits. The
>lack of stable tags _can_ certainly be a problem, but it solves itself
>sooner or later when people upgrade their kernel.
If just waiting with fixing issues is ok until a user might "eventually"
upgrade is acceptable then why bother with a stable tree to begin with?
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-05 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-25 15:35 [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 01/33] HID: uclogic: Add ID for Trust Flex Design Tablet Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 02/33] HID: ite: Replace ABS_MISC 120/121 events with touchpad on/off keypresses Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 03/33] HID: cypress: Support Varmilo Keyboards' media hotkeys Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 04/33] HID: add support for Sega Saturn Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 05/33] Input: i8042 - allow insmod to succeed on devices without an i8042 controller Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 06/33] HID: hid-sensor-hub: Fix issue with devices with no report ID Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 07/33] staging: ralink-gdma: fix kconfig dependency bug for DMA_RALINK Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 08/33] HID: add HID_QUIRK_INCREMENT_USAGE_ON_DUPLICATE for Gamevice devices Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 09/33] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: use readl_poll_timeout_atomic variant Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 10/33] x86/xen: don't unbind uninitialized lock_kicker_irq Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 11/33] kunit: fix display of failed expectations for strings Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 12/33] HID: logitech-hidpp: Add HIDPP_CONSUMER_VENDOR_KEYS quirk for the Dinovo Edge Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 13/33] HID: Add Logitech Dinovo Edge battery quirk Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 14/33] proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 15/33] nvme: free sq/cq dbbuf pointers when dbbuf set fails Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 16/33] io_uring: handle -EOPNOTSUPP on path resolution Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 17/33] net: stmmac: dwmac_lib: enlarge dma reset timeout Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 18/33] vdpasim: fix "mac_pton" undefined error Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 19/33] vhost: add helper to check if a vq has been setup Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 20/33] vhost scsi: alloc cmds per vq instead of session Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 21/33] vhost scsi: fix cmd completion race Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 17:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-25 18:01 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 18:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-29 4:13 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-29 17:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-29 21:06 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-30 8:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 13:28 ` Greg KH
2020-11-30 13:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 13:57 ` Greg KH
2020-11-30 14:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 17:34 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-30 17:38 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-30 17:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 19:44 ` Mike Christie
2020-11-30 20:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 23:59 ` Sasha Levin
2020-12-04 8:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-04 15:49 ` Sasha Levin
2020-12-04 16:12 ` Joe Perches
2020-12-04 17:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-05 20:59 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 23/33] vhost scsi: Add support for LUN resets Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 24/33] cpuidle: tegra: Annotate tegra_pm_set_cpu_in_lp2() with RCU_NONIDLE Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 25/33] dmaengine: pl330: _prep_dma_memcpy: Fix wrong burst size Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 26/33] scsi: libiscsi: Fix NOP race condition Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 27/33] scsi: target: iscsi: Fix cmd abort fabric stop race Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 28/33] lockdep: Put graph lock/unlock under lock_recursion protection Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 29/33] perf/x86: fix sysfs type mismatches Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 30/33] xtensa: uaccess: Add missing __user to strncpy_from_user() prototype Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 31/33] x86/dumpstack: Do not try to access user space code of other tasks Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 32/33] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Wait for EEPROM done after HW reset Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 33/33] xfs: don't allow NOWAIT DIO across extent boundaries Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 21:52 ` Dave Chinner
2020-11-25 23:46 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-26 7:13 ` Dave Chinner
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