Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757786Ab3GLWRq (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:17:46 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41658 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757391Ab3GLWRp (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:17:45 -0400 Message-ID: <51E08076.6040506@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:17:26 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline References: <20130711214830.611455274@linuxfoundation.org> <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> <20130712025745.GA24086@tuxdriver.com> <20130712033430.GA3798@kroah.com> <51E03AEE.5010403@zytor.com> <20130712172836.GA7627@kroah.com> <20130712175718.GA342@thunk.org> <51E0480A.2040905@zytor.com> <51E04AB9.1000003@zytor.com> <1373658797.17876.119.camel@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <1373658797.17876.119.camel@gandalf.local.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 853 Lines: 24 On 07/12/2013 12:53 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> They can be useful for "local" notes (they can be very powerful for >> certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me. > > Perhaps notes can be used as that reminder to send to stable. Tag a > commit with a note, and have some automated process that monitors > Linus's tree and when a commit makes it in, automate an email to stable > with said commit. > Didn't Linus just say he won't do that? Either way it would seem to fail to accomplish the record-keeping aspect. -hpa -- 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/