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Date:   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:58:57 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and
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On Mon 2018-04-16 12:53:07, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:43:13 +0000
> Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com> wrote:
>=20
> > >If you are worried about people not putting enough "Stable: " tags in
> > >their commits, perhaps you can write them emails "hey, I think this
> > >should go to stable, do you agree"? You should get people marking
> > >their commits themselves pretty quickly... =20
> >=20
> > Greg has been doing this for years, ask him how that worked out for him.
>=20
> Then he shouldn't pull in the fix. Let it be broken. As soon as someone
> complains about it being broken, then bug the maintainer again. "Hey,
> this is broken in 4.x, and this looks like the fix for it. Do you
> agree?"
>=20
> I agree that some patches don't need this discussion. Things that are
> obvious. Off-by-one and stack-overflow and other bugs like that. Or
> another common bug is error paths that don't release locks. These
> should just be backported. But subtle fixes like this thread should
> default to (not backport unless someones complains or the
> author/maintainer acks it).

Agreed. And it scares me we are even discussing this.


									Pavel

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