Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753686Ab3GQJxX (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:53:23 -0400 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.65]:16139 "EHLO szxga02-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753475Ab3GQJxV (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:53:21 -0400 Message-ID: <51E6673F.5050002@huawei.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:43:27 +0800 From: Li Zefan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: Steven Rostedt , David Lang , "ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline References: <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> <20130712051451.GC25815@1wt.eu> <20130716165933.GU22506@sirena.org.uk> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F31C845B1@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> <1374000084.6458.36.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130716191147.GA1680@kroah.com> <1374003789.6458.55.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130716201041.GC20721@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: <20130716201041.GC20721@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.135.68.215] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1636 Lines: 39 On 2013/7/17 4:10, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:43:09PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 12:11 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> >>> People mark stable patches that way already today with a: >>> Cc: stable # delay for 3.12-rc4 >>> or some such wording. I take those and don't apply them until the noted >>> release happens, so you can do this if needed. But this is not documented in stable_kernel_rules.txt. And it's not handled by your automatic scripts? >> >> I guess the thing is, are stable patches prone to regressions. Do we >> just do that for patches that we think are too complex and may cause >> some harm. Of course, there's the question about having a clue about >> what patches might cause harm or not. > > We'd probably better switch the tag to be "# now" to imply that we don't > want to delay them, and that by default those merged prior to rc4 are all > postponed. I suspect that the switching could be mostly automated this way, > avoiding to add burden to Greg : > > - if commit ID >= -rc4 > move to immediate queue, it's a "critical" fix as per Linus' rules > > - if Cc: stable line has "now" at the end, move to immediate queue as > the maintainer takes this reponsibility ; > > - otherwise move to the next .2 queue. > I like the idea of postpone stable patches by default. -- 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/