On Wednesday 09 May 2012, David Miller wrote: > From: Wolfgang Walter <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 18:57:13 +0200 > > > But when we are at it: I think that when a bug in a stable kernel is > > found and the final fix is known it is bad practice to hord that > > patch till submission without letting stable@ know about it. > > I think you have no idea what goes into vetting patches for -stable.
I can imagine that very well. I wrote and manage a bunch of larger patches against wine vanilla for us and to port them regularly to newer versions. > > It can take me days to put together a series, and also I time my > -stable submissions with when Linus pulls my 'net' bug fixes into his > tree since a part of the -stable requirements is presence in Linus's > tree. I know. > > I therefore batch, because bleeding out individual fixes one by one to > -stable rarely, if ever, makes sense. I understand that and as I sad it was not my intention to question that. > > And another part of what goes into vetting a patch is time. The > longer a patch sits in a non-stable tree getting tested, the more > likely any unwanted bugs and side effects will be caught before the > patch goes into -stable. > > And finally I am under no obligation whatsoever to post some kind of > status report to -stable every few days saying when I'll do this or > that. > I didn't say that you should do that. I just don't see the point why I should not send a mail to stable@. It documented that there is a known problem in 3.3.5, the fix for it and that you already aware of it and will take care to get it into stable. Nobody had reported that on stable@. I mentioned your mail not to blame you but so nobody thinks I want du submit it directly. Everybody reading your mail I linked to could see that you wrote it May 1st and therefor could not be in 3.3.5. But I think it would have been good if someone (not you) had sent a mail as early as 2012-04-20 to stable@ so that others could find the solution more easily. Regards, -- Wolfgang Walter Studentenwerk München Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
