On Thu 2017-08-31 07:44:58, Kalle Valo wrote: > David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> writes: > > > From: Kalle Valo <kv...@codeaurora.org> > > Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:31:31 +0300 > > > >> AFAICS the bug was introduced by 9df86e2e702c6 back in 2010. If the bug > >> has been there for 7 years so waiting for a few more weeks should not > >> hurt. > > > > As a maintainer you have a right to handle bug fixing in that way, but > > certainly that is not how I would handle this. > > > > It's easy to validate this fix, it's extremely unlikely to cause > > a regression, and fixes a problem someone actually was able to > > trigger. > > > > Deferring to -next only has the side effect of making people wait > > longer for the fix. > > Yeah, you are right there. I did actually ponder which I tree should > commit it back in July but due to various reasons decided differently.
Can we still get the fix to v4.13-final? :-).
Thanks,
Pavel
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