From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, David Lang <david@lang.hm>,
"ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:43:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1374003789.6458.55.camel@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130716191147.GA1680@kroah.com>
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 12:11 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> People mark stable patches that way already today with a:
> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # delay for 3.12-rc4
> or some such wording. I take those and don't apply them until the noted
> release happens, so you can do this if needed.
I guess the thing is, are stable patches prone to regressions. Do we
just do that for patches that we think are too complex and may cause
some harm. Of course, there's the question about having a clue about
what patches might cause harm or not.
For tracing patches, I test them probably more than most people, as
tracing isn't usually done on non development machines. A regression in
tracing isn't likely to harm others.
Right now it doesn't seem to be an issue because we have "Greg" doing
things at light speed. But when stable is maintained by a lesser deity,
then we may need to look at changing the process.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 136+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-11 22:01 [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 01/19] libceph: Fix NULL pointer dereference in auth client code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 02/19] ceph: fix sleeping function called from invalid context Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 03/19] libceph: fix invalid unsigned->signed conversion for timespec encoding Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 04/19] drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 05/19] module: do percpu allocation after uniqueness check. No, really! Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 06/19] charger-manager: Ensure event is not used as format string Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 07/19] hpfs: better test for errors Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 08/19] block: do not pass disk names as format strings Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 09/19] crypto: sanitize argument for format string Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 10/19] MAINTAINERS: add stable_kernel_rules.txt to stable maintainer information Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 11/19] futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 12/19] tty: Reset itty for other pty Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 13/19] Revert "serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 14/19] NFSv4.1 end back channel session draining Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 15/19] nfsd4: fix decoding of compounds across page boundaries Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 16/19] KVM: VMX: mark unusable segment as nonpresent Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 17/19] SCSI: sd: Fix parsing of temporary cache mode prefix Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 18/19] cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 19/19] Revert "memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:14 ` [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review Josh Boyer
2013-07-14 22:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-11 22:29 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-11 22:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-12 1:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 14:15 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-12 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 15:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 15:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 16:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 16:35 ` Josh Boyer
2013-07-12 16:36 ` Josh Boyer
2013-07-12 17:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-14 22:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-12 16:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 17:31 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-12 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 18:11 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-12 19:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-12 19:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 19:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-12 20:19 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-12 20:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 20:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 21:19 ` Justin M. Forbes
2013-07-13 0:47 ` Jochen Striepe
2013-07-13 11:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-13 15:10 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-13 15:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 19:50 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-12 20:47 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-12 21:02 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-13 6:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-13 6:36 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-13 6:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-13 7:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 4:12 ` Li Zefan
2013-07-15 4:43 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-13 11:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-13 18:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-14 2:22 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-14 3:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-14 5:24 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-14 20:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-13 6:43 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-13 6:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-14 23:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-15 1:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 2:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-14 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-12 0:50 ` When to push bug fixes to mainline Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-12 1:20 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-07-12 1:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 9:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-12 11:19 ` Josh Boyer
2013-07-12 2:57 ` John W. Linville
2013-07-12 3:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-12 7:32 ` James Bottomley
2013-07-12 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 17:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-12 17:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 18:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-13 17:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-12 17:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-12 18:13 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-12 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 19:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 20:09 ` Shuah Khan
2013-07-12 20:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-12 20:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 22:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 22:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-13 6:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-13 0:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-13 1:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-13 12:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-12 3:25 ` Li Zefan
2013-07-15 4:22 ` Rob Landley
2013-07-12 5:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16 7:19 ` David Lang
2013-07-16 16:40 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Takashi Iwai
2013-07-16 16:42 ` David Lang
2013-07-16 19:29 ` Takashi Iwai
2013-07-16 16:59 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-16 17:58 ` Luck, Tony
2013-07-16 17:58 ` Luck, Tony
2013-07-16 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16 18:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 18:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 19:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-16 19:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-16 19:43 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2013-07-16 19:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 20:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16 20:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-17 2:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-17 2:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-17 9:43 ` Li Zefan
2013-07-17 9:43 ` Li Zefan
2013-07-16 18:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16 18:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-19 10:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-19 10:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-16 18:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16 18:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 20:29 ` David Lang
2013-07-12 17:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 17:20 ` [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review Shuah Khan
2013-07-12 17:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-13 4:14 ` Satoru Takeuchi
2013-07-14 23:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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