Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751747Ab3HUNs4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:48:56 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:59022 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751463Ab3HUNsy (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:48:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:48:52 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , stable , lwn@lwn.net, Guenter Roeck , Hugh Dickins , Johannes Berg , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Proposed stable release changes Message-ID: <20130821134852.GA4562@nazgul.tnic> References: <20130820224032.GA20491@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130820224032.GA20491@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 18 On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:40:32PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > - I will wait for a -rc to come out with the patch in it before putting > it into a stable release, unless: Question: what's the exact reasoning of that delay? To get more people who install -rc kernels to smoke-test patches tagged for stable. What happens if the bug gets detected *after* you've taken the patch? We probably end up in the same situation. I guess I'm questioning the usefullness of such a delay period... Thanks. -- 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/