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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>,
	Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.16 47/47] KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 04:07:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191101080745.GT1554@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3078d0a186cca2dfae741908ffff41f1bdb30eae.camel@perches.com>

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 03:53:23PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 22:14 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 12:05 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 19:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> > > 3.16.76-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>> >
>> > This seems more like an enhancement than a bug fix.
>> >
>> > Is this really the type of patch that is appropriate
>> > for stable?
>>
>> Apparently so:
>>
>> v4.14.135: eba797dbf352 KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
>> v4.19.61: ba27a25df6df KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
>> v4.4.187: 505c011f9f53 KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
>> v4.9.187: 3984eae04473 KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
>> v5.1.20: edadec197fbf KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
>> v5.2.3: 9f062aef7356 KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
>
>I think not, but hey, maybe you and Greg do.
>
>Porting enhancements, even trivial ones, imo is
>not a great thing for stable branches.
>
>My perspective is that only bug fixes should be
>applied to stable branches.

Usability issues are just as bad as code bugs. Our human interface is at
least as important as the functionality of our code.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-01  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-25 18:03 [PATCH 3.16 00/47] 3.16.76-rc1 review Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 01/47] eCryptfs: fix a couple type promotion bugs Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 02/47] ARM: riscpc: fix DMA Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 03/47] 9p/virtio: Add cleanup path in p9_virtio_init Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 04/47] tty: serial: cpm_uart - fix init when SMC is relocated Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 05/47] signal/pid_namespace: Fix reboot_pid_ns to use send_sig not force_sig Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 06/47] xfrm: Fix xfrm sel prefix length validation Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 07/47] af_key: fix leaks in key_pol_get_resp and dump_sp Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 08/47] crypto: talitos - check AES key size Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 09/47] crypto: ghash - fix unaligned memory access in ghash_setkey() Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 10/47] s390/qdio: handle PENDING state for QEBSM devices Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 11/47] memstick: Fix error cleanup path of memstick_init Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 12/47] gpio: omap: fix lack of irqstatus_raw0 for OMAP4 Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 13/47] xfrm: fix sa selector validation Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 14/47] PCI: Do not poll for PME if the device is in D3cold Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 15/47] usb: gadget: ether: Fix race between gether_disconnect and rx_submit Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 16/47] powerpc/32s: fix suspend/resume when IBATs 4-7 are used Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 17/47] powerpc/watchpoint: Restore NV GPRs while returning from exception Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 18/47] USB: serial: option: add GosunCn ZTE WeLink ME3630 Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 19/47] USB: serial: option: add support for GosunCn ME3630 RNDIS mode Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 20/47] s390: fix stfle zero padding Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 21/47] VMCI: Fix integer overflow in VMCI handle arrays Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 22/47] mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 23/47] mwifiex: fix 802.11n/WPA detection Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 24/47] media: v4l2: Test type instead of cfg->type in v4l2_ctrl_new_custom() Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 25/47] EDAC: Fix global-out-of-bounds write when setting edac_mc_poll_msec Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 26/47] carl9170: fix misuse of device driver API Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 27/47] x86/ptrace: Fix possible spectre-v1 in ptrace_get_debugreg() Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 28/47] x86/tls: Fix possible spectre-v1 in do_get_thread_area() Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 29/47] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add ID for isodebug v1 Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 30/47] igmp: fix memory leak in igmpv3_del_delrec() Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 31/47] s390/qdio: (re-)initialize tiqdio list entries Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 32/47] s390/qdio: don't touch the dsci in tiqdio_add_input_queues() Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 33/47] net: bridge: stp: don't cache eth dest pointer before skb pull Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 34/47] lib/scatterlist: Fix mapping iterator when sg->offset is greater than PAGE_SIZE Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 35/47] bonding: validate ip header before check IPPROTO_IGMP Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 36/47] NFSv4: Handle the special Linux file open access mode Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 37/47] ARC: hide unused function unw_hdr_alloc Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 38/47] udf: Fix incorrect final NOT_ALLOCATED (hole) extent length Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 39/47] mm/mmu_notifier: use hlist_add_head_rcu() Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 40/47] net: neigh: fix multiple neigh timer scheduling Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 41/47] ALSA: seq: Break too long mutex context in the write loop Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 42/47] coda: pass the host file in vma->vm_file on mmap Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 43/47] caif-hsi: fix possible deadlock in cfhsi_exit_module() Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 44/47] parisc: Fix kernel panic due invalid values in IAOQ0 or IAOQ1 Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 45/47] padata: use smp_mb in padata_reorder to avoid orphaned padata jobs Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 46/47] Input: psmouse - fix build error of multiple definition Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 18:03 ` [PATCH 3.16 47/47] KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed Ben Hutchings
2019-10-25 19:05   ` Joe Perches
2019-10-31 22:14     ` Ben Hutchings
2019-10-31 22:53       ` Joe Perches
2019-10-31 22:56         ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-01  8:07         ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-11-01 15:40           ` Joe Perches
2019-11-02  7:39             ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-26  1:35 ` [PATCH 3.16 00/47] 3.16.76-rc1 review Guenter Roeck
2019-10-26 18:00   ` Ben Hutchings

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