Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933267Ab3GLPr2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:47:28 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:30812 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933155Ab3GLPr1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:47:27 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=Tr1kdUrh c=1 sm=0 a=Sro2XwOs0tJUSHxCKfOySw==:17 a=Drc5e87SC40A:10 a=E3gBSPWCDXAA:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=meVymXHHAAAA:8 a=KGjhK52YXX0A:10 a=zNXoGfytzK0A:10 a=IGoSpHfCR_l--EN0JgcA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=Sro2XwOs0tJUSHxCKfOySw==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 67.255.60.225 Message-ID: <1373644044.17876.92.camel@gandalf.local.home> Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review From: Steven Rostedt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Guenter Roeck , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:47:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <20130711214830.611455274@linuxfoundation.org> <20130711222935.GA11340@redhat.com> <20130711224455.GA17222@kroah.com> <20130712141530.GA3629@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-3 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: 1464 Lines: 35 On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 08:22 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Listen to yourself. In fact, there is a damn good solution": don't > mark crap for stable, and don't send crap to me after -rc4. > I tend to hold things off after -rc4 because you scare me more than Greg does ;-) Actually, as I consider tracing a second class citizen, the things that I tend not to send you, but instead mark for stable, are things that can cause events to be dropped, or just incorrect trace data. Like a tracepoint saying preemption is off when it is enabled. If I find a bug that can cause some minor incorrect trace data to occur, and its after -rc4, I tend to just mark it with a stable tag and wait for the merge window to occur. I don't mean regressions either. Usually, the incorrect data comes from something new for that release, or something that's been there forever (like commit 11034ae9c20f4057a6127fc965906417978e69b2). Should those be sent to you late in the game as well? For the 3.11 merge window, I had quite a bit of stable tags, but those were commits that I would have sent to you but they were found very late, and by the time I was satisfied with the test output, you had already opened the window. -- Steve -- 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/