Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758710Ab3GPDnN (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:43:13 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:4378 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755335Ab3GPDnL (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:43:11 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=Tr1kdUrh c=1 sm=0 a=Sro2XwOs0tJUSHxCKfOySw==:17 a=Drc5e87SC40A:10 a=pKJnpFkXxSEA:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=meVymXHHAAAA:8 a=KGjhK52YXX0A:10 a=H1u3HIS9vXkA:10 a=dHC3jRT_i2HfWTKPtbUA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=Sro2XwOs0tJUSHxCKfOySw==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 67.255.60.225 Message-ID: <1373946189.17876.267.camel@gandalf.local.home> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag From: Steven Rostedt To: Dave Airlie Cc: Ben Hutchings , Greg KH , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:43:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <1373916476.2748.69.camel@dabdike> <20130715214422.GA2478@kroah.com> <1373925699.17876.218.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130716000623.GB26261@kroah.com> <1373940594.17876.241.camel@gandalf.local.home> <1373942486.31067.122.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> 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: 1292 Lines: 29 On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 13:27 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > I also heard some managers decided their kernel source packages should > > have all the patches squashed together to make them harder to cherry- > > pick... could it have been the same company? > > Greg loves to tell stories about RH management, but really if he can > find any engineer who works for RH that says he can't work on stable > due to being told by management, I'd be surprised. Maybe when stable > first surfaced there was a hope of it being close to RHEL, but at this > point stable has little to no usefulness from a RHEL point of view, > and since nearly all the RH employed maintainers all do stable work, I > can't see why Greg would think this matters. And to stress that point. I myself work for Red Hat, and I'm very big into the stable tree. Heck, I maintain a 3.6 stable (not as well as "Greg" does, but I'm just a mere mortal). I don't know what managers Greg talked to, but I've been encouraged by management to mark bug fixes with the stable tag. -- 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/