On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:18:49AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > 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.
Exactly, send it in and see what happens :) _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
