From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161396AbWG2AaO (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:30:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161397AbWG2AaN (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:30:13 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:14018 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161396AbWG2AaM (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:30:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:27:45 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dave Jones , Nathan Scott , stable@kernel.org, Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] 2.6.17.[1-6] XFS Filesystem Corruption, Where is 2.6.17.7? Message-ID: <20060729002745.GA11170@kroah.com> References: <20060725084624.C2090627@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <20060725210716.GC4807@merlin.emma.line.org> <20060725210919.GD4807@merlin.emma.line.org> <20060728232654.GB2140@kroah.com> <20060728235534.GE3217@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060728235534.GE3217@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:55:34PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:26:54PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > OK, 2.6.17.7 is out, but still - is this suggestion worthwhile > > > considering for future -stable release engineering or just crap? > > > > .7 took a bit longer than expected, due to some security bugs that > > needed to be added to the queue, combined with the fact that both Chris > > and I were busy with OLS stuff. Normally we both aren't travelling at > > the same time, but right then, we were, so we couldn't respond as > > quickly as it seems some people felt we should have. > > > > Sorry about this, we'll try to do better next time. > > The flipside to this is that those patches had been posted for around a > week before you released .7, and *no-one* caught this problem until > after the release. > > The burden of testing shouldn't solely be on the -stable team. > Perhaps a -pre release at the time of review would be a good idea. > Just a roll-up of the proposed patches, to save testers having > to save and apply 30 patches seperately ? I can do that, it's very simple to do using quilt. Others have asked for this too. I'll try it out with the next release. thanks, greg k-h