Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932627Ab3GPMnv (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:43:51 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:41178 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932086Ab3GPMnt (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:43:49 -0400 Message-ID: <1373978601.2537.8.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag From: Ben Hutchings To: Jiri Kosina Cc: James Bottomley , Greg KH , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:43:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1373916476.2748.69.camel@dabdike> <20130715214422.GA2478@kroah.com> <1373951852.2148.9.camel@dabdike> <20130716062058.GB19052@kroah.com> <1373960616.2148.34.camel@dabdike> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LDBffvhz9SXMqkjTgAWW" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-3 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.101 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3344 Lines: 92 --=-LDBffvhz9SXMqkjTgAWW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 11:46 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, James Bottomley wrote: >=20 > > > But I need, from the distros, specific examples of what they object t= o. > > > So far all I've gotten is one security patch (that was needed), and o= ne > > > patch for sysfs that I backported too far in the version numbers (my > > > fault.) > > >=20 > > > Given the huge number of stable patches over the past few years, only > > > having 2 patches be an issue sounds like things are working well for > > > people here. > > >=20 > > > If I don't get pushback, with specifics, from the distros, I will not > > > know what to change, so if people can provide me that, it will help o= ut > > > a lot. > >=20 > > I agree ... I think Ji=C5=99=C3=AD and his Red Hat equivalent need to p= ipe up and > > give us more examples of the problems they've been having. >=20 > I am still continuing with my pushback against the /dev/random revamp tha= t=20 > happened in -stable; at least in the form it happened. I still strongly= =20 > believe it's something that's not a stable material. But that's happening= =20 > in parallel in a different thread already. >=20 > Okay, if you want another example: >=20 > commit a6aa749906b92eaec6ca0469f90f35de26044d90 > Author: Zhenzhong Duan > Date: Thu Dec 20 15:05:14 2012 -0800 >=20 > drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: fetch dmi version from SMBIOS if it exi= sts >=20 > While this is a correct fix for major kernel release, as it achieves=20 > correctness by checking SMBIOS version properly and behaving according to= =20 > the spec, it actually causes an userspace ABI regression in some sense, a= s=20 > it just changes byte order of /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid on certain= =20 > systems. [...] It wasn't even a correct fix, as it caused the DMI header to be detected in the wrong place on some machines. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. --=-LDBffvhz9SXMqkjTgAWW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAUeU/6ee/yOyVhhEJAQpPAA//SQWKIrv29X3x3vjvRZd8H9cKoG/MSBWq ihD3dZT0RJ1gtEl64DGdLi0zsWJnE1GdWIDDfKZ1ng1gD3KAqL9vqRgrKSS+XZIp tfZGD6DYS2UW7oXejDlxca80fiTd0e4ex7QcKHvVe5wiJ6t36LPRoKojKxEke5MT Ni/WOUOjvbgW/6euTEqCRo0r2WppsIdE8oivAKVQwVUa7E6sAmJ2MCf/Bdgiu5Ud utpaXZIKNmodAc66vl/kxDSK+ULlpDAYebKafcDhopgKbzvvIZy7mHsSxzwBvtQF A+9h8gHzsmQWEYIRzqz4kIrH0/8DzqsUXS5vOkdMeGxZuKVqezCyrmHtLW9vJ1qy o9aju2SABO/Y1hmMzAzr4woAtfaA8badurRUE26Y3KiquQ94D2fSVCBkoOJl62It oJAtBAAqbxH9qokAVNhrIRY5L3vz21f3KrEXzLX6r6EO5IWeuCTkH/Ja0VNMbq90 DrzqxseAe9L00D1NvZhpeAqWCMkamNeL2VmZDc8I2yN8YUGT0L+TEdI5qMZxUddJ OAwbK2MLpKR/EXmm/HEyZY3iv6tsHzJfjFZbU3UGMcatOtTfSDPVuT0+aTB5FEFh JqCbzw5RqDC/VDi7uQm2aRMr6H9aJ30lfRsvrQSv2bL8I0RW3dbHLMI4r56NniZA 3P3Fv38S+WA= =HzuL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LDBffvhz9SXMqkjTgAWW-- -- 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/