From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965300Ab3GLTpA (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:45:00 -0400 Received: from mail-ve0-f176.google.com ([209.85.128.176]:34341 "EHLO mail-ve0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753043Ab3GLTo7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:44:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <51E04AB9.1000003@zytor.com> References: <20130711214830.611455274@linuxfoundation.org> <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> <20130712025745.GA24086@tuxdriver.com> <20130712033430.GA3798@kroah.com> <51E03AEE.5010403@zytor.com> <20130712172836.GA7627@kroah.com> <20130712175718.GA342@thunk.org> <51E0480A.2040905@zytor.com> <51E04AB9.1000003@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:44:58 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: LhtPJDrROm7XgcwWvIev_fCBUfc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline From: Linus Torvalds To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "John W. Linville" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:28 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > OK, just read up some more on git notes, and *both* the assumptions I > had made about git notes were fundamentally wrong. Not sure how well > they would scale, though, but stuffing metadata like additional > Acked-by:, Tested-by: and Cc: stable into notes seems more viable after > reading the spec. I really don't want to use git notes for anything that actually gets distributed. They can be useful for "local" notes (they can be very powerful for certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me. Linus