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Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:02:42 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Samuel Dionne-Riel <samuel@dionne-riel.com>
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Subject: Re: Userspace regression in LTS and stable kernels
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:18:30AM -0500, Samuel Dionne-Riel wrote:
>I'm sorry to interject here, but the issue was reported on the
>Kernel.org Bugzilla on February 2nd
>
> - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202497
>
>In the interest of better communication, if the need arises again, how
>should bugs in the RC kernels be reported so they (1) are spotted by
>the right maintainers and (2) not backported even though they were
>reported as causing breaking changes?

Sadly our bugzilla is rarely used, even though the information in that
particular bug report is perfect.

Maybe pinging LKML and stable@vger.kernel.org would be enough, specially
if you know that it's a stable commit that caused the regression.

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Thanks,
Sasha