Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:53:45 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
       Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>, Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
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       Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>,
       Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
       Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>,
       Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>, stable@kernel.org,
       Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rbranco@la.checkpoint.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 00/17] 2.6.27-stable review
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:01:26PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:33:34AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.27.3 release.
> >There are 17 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> >to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> >let us know.  If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and
> >wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.
> >
> >These patches are sent out with a number of different people on the
> >Cc: line.  If you wish to be a reviewer, please email stable@kernel.org
> >to add your name to the list.  If you want to be off the reviewer list,
> >also email us.
> >
> >Responses should be made by Wed, October 22, 2008 19:00:00 UTC.
> >Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> OK, I realize I'm late.  Apologies in advance for that.
> 
> I don't see how patches 3, 16, and 17 really fit into the "stable"
> rules.  None of them:
> 
> "... fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things
>  marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real
>  security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue.  In short,
>  something critical."
> 
> So, are we being a bit more lax on the requirements for the
> -stable kernels and I missed the memo, or?

Huh?

Patch 3:
	Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
solves a memory leak on an error path that has every opportunity to
happen in the driver core.  Do you think this is not a real bug?

Patch 16 and 17 add new device ids, something that we started allowing
in -stable trees a number of major releases ago.  You missed the memo
for that one :)

Perhaps we need to add it to the file
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, anyone care to send a patch?

thanks,

greg k-h
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