Hi, On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:22:33AM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a question about sending a patch with more than 100 lines. > > Per http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, > Patches with more than 100 lines are not acceptable. > > I am backporting 2aa15890f3c191326678f1bd68af61ec6b8753ec to .32.x > stable tree. The backported patch has to be more than 100 lines. (Also > the original one exceeds the limit). > > So why there is such an limit? I see many patches that are more than 100 > lines with "Cc: [email protected]" tagged sent to mainline. And also, > for example, 2aa15890f3c191326678f1bd68af61ec6b8753ec is included in .39 > stable tree. > So do we must obey the 100 lines limit? If the patch does need to be > more than 100 lines, it can't be included? If we have to split it to > serveral ones, non of them can fully fix the problem. > > For this problem, > http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > only says it has to be, but didn't say how to make it like that.
I think the rule is in place exactly to achieve what you did : ask on a case-by-case basis. You cheked the original patch, you checked that it was already backported to .39, etc... so in fact the rule forced you to do several sanity checks before blindly sending the patch. It will then be easier for Greg to decide if he accepts it based on your analysis. Regards, Willy _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
