Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932400Ab3GLBPS (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:15:18 -0400 Received: from mail.linux-iscsi.org ([67.23.28.174]:56578 "EHLO linux-iscsi.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752932Ab3GLBPQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:15:16 -0400 Message-ID: <1373592023.7397.465.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:20:23 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> References: <20130711214830.611455274@linuxfoundation.org> <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1796 Lines: 36 On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 20:50 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:01:17PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > I'm sitting on top of over 170 more patches that have been marked for > > the stable releases right now that are not included in this set of > > releases. The fact that there are this many patches for stable stuff > > that are waiting to be merged through the main -rc1 merge window cycle > > is worrying to me. > > > > Why are subsystem maintainers holding on to fixes that are > > _supposedly_ affecting all users? I mean, 21 powerpc core changes > > that I don't see until a -rc1 merge? It's as if developers don't > > expect people to use a .0 release and are relying on me to get the > > fixes they have burried in their trees out to users. That's not that > > nice. 6 "core" iscsi-target fixes? That's the sign of either a > > broken subsystem maintainer, or a lack of understanding what the > > normal -rc kernel releases are supposed to be for. > In my defense here, the patches that have been CC'ed to 3.10.y stable are to address bugs in iser-target, and it's interaction with existing iscsi-target code after the large set of refactoring changes went in to support multi-transport operation. The reasons that they where not included in a v3.10-rc pull request is because the bugs where found sufficiently late enough in the cycle, and required large enough changes plus a non trival amount of manual failure injection testing to verify their correctness. --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/