On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:03:51AM +0900, Tomoya MORINAGA wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> According to stable kernel rules, > >> >> any patch for stable must be less than 100 lines. > >> >> > >> >> Is there any way pushing this patch to stable kernel ? > >> > > >> > I do not think so, do you? > >> > >> Do you mean it's possible that a original patch exceeds 100lines > >> accepted before is applicable to stable kernel ? > >> Let me clarify your saying. > >> This patch can be applied by any way, right ? > >> If yes, let me know how to do it ? > > > > No, sorry, I'm not going to accept this patch for a stable kernel tree > > as it's too big and is not an "obvious bug fix" > > > > Apart from this patch, if a patch is for serious issue and it's too big patch, > can you apply the patch or not ?
It depends on the patch, we take it as a case-by-case basis. greg k-h -- 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
