Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:43461 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758056Ab2DLW6M (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:58:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120412.181256.1267592727086214582.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20120412.181256.1267592727086214582.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:58:10 +0300 Message-ID: (sfid-20120413_005833_286571_10270D8C) Subject: Re: [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review From: Felipe Contreras To: David Miller Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, lists@uece.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com, ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, linville@tuxdriver.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:12 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Felipe Contreras > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:04:42 +0300 > >> Wrong is wrong, before or after the 3.3.1 tag, this patch is not >> 'stable' material, and removing it does not affect upstream at all. > > What you don't understand is that bug fixes will get lost if you only > fix them in -stable, it doesn't matter HOW THEY GOT into -stable. Let's suppose that c1afdaf was never back-ported from v3.4-rc1, how would you have fond out there was an issue with it? There's 10000 patches in v3.4-rc2, how do you expect to find issues in them? People found out this issue on v3.4-rc1, so the fix would not have been lost, but lets assume it would, v3.3.1 had the issue, the patch as reverted in v3.3.2, and v3.4 still had the issue. So what? There's already 10000 patches that would never make it to 3.3.x, and many will have issues, which is why there would be v3.4.x. > In fact IT HAS FUCKING HAPPENED that we didn't fix something upstream > that got fixed in -stable a time long ago when we didn't have the > policy we're using now which you're going so unreasonably ape-shit > about. I see how a *fix* on stable could get lost, but this is not a fix. A lost fix would be like: v3.3 (bad), v3.3.1 (good), v3.4 (bad) But the worst-case scenario here would be: v3.3 (good), v3.3.1 (bad), v3.3.2 (good), v3.4 (bad) You said this has happened in the past, I challenge you to find a single instance of this case: a patch is applied and reverted in 'stable', and the issue triggered by the patches was not fixed in the next version. -- Felipe Contreras