Message-ID: <1377039840.32763.11.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Proposed stable release changes
From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, lwn@lwn.net,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:04:00 -0700
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On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 15:40 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Given that I had to just revert a patch in the recent stable releases
> that didn't get enough time to "bake" in Linus's tree (or in -next), I
> figured it was worth discussing some possible changes with how "fast" I
> pick up patches for stable releases.
> 
> So, how about this proposal:
> 
> - I will wait for a -rc to come out with the patch in it before putting
>   it into a stable release, unless:
> 	- the maintainer ACKs it, or sends it directly (like DaveM does
> 	  for networking patches)
> 	- I have seen enough discussion about a patch to show that it
> 	  really does fix something / is good / doesn't cause problems.
> 	- obviously safe, i.e. "add a device id" type thing.
> 
> Given that we have -rc releases every week, except for the initial -rc1
> release, I don't think this will really cause any major delays.
> 
> Also, now that we are about to head into my busy "travel season", odds
> are, I'll be at least a week behind anyway, so this would probably start
> happening without an "official" change.  It's been a boring summer, I've
> been able to keep up with the stable stuff really easily, causing
> problems like this :)
> 
> Objections?  Comments?

Sounds like a reasonable tradeoff, as long as the 'please include this
to stable ASAP' latency for critical fixes does not end up being too
large..

--nab

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