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
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