Re: fs/bcachefs/

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 05:00:05PM +0100, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> On středa 21. února 2024 15:53:11 CET Greg KH wrote:
> > 	Given the huge patch volume that the stable tree manages (30-40 changes
> > 	accepted a day, 7 days a week), any one kernel subsystem that wishes to
> > 	do something different only slows down everyone else.
> 
> Lower down the volume then? Raise the bar for what gets backported?
> Stable kernel releases got unnecessarily big [1] (Jiří is in Cc).
> Those 40 changes a day cannot get a proper review. Each stable release
> tries to mimic -rc except -rc is in consistent state while "stable" is
> just a bunch of changes picked here and there.

If you can point out any specific commits that we should not be taking,
please let us know.

Personally I think we are not taking enough, and are still missing real
fixes.  Overall, this is only a very small % of what goes into Linus's
tree every day, so by that measure alone, we know we are missing things.

thanks,

greg k-h