Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752128Ab3GPGY7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:24:59 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:35288 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751853Ab3GPGY6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:24:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:24:52 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Greg KH cc: James Bottomley , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag In-Reply-To: <20130715214422.GA2478@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <1373916476.2748.69.camel@dabdike> <20130715214422.GA2478@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1392 Lines: 28 On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Greg KH wrote: > I don't like this at all, just for the simple reason that it will push > the majority of the work of stable kernel development on to the > subsystem maintainers, who have enough work to do as it is. > > Stable tree stuff should cause almost _no_ extra burden on the kernel > developers, because it is something that I, and a few other people, have > agreed to do with our time. It has taken me 8 _years_ to finally get > maintainers to agree to mark stuff for the stable tree, and fine-tune a > development process that makes it easy for us to do this backport work. It's important to remember that the subsystem maintainers have essentially no input on how many stable trees there are or how long they are maintained. That is entirely up to the people maintaining the stable trees. Just because some crazy person ;-) decides to maintain 2.4 for many years doesn't mean that every subsystem maintainer needs to worry about backporting patches from 3.11 all the way back to 2.4. The fact that they are as willing as they are to review the results of the backports for problems in amazing. David Lang -- 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/