From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751317AbdHaGwH (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2017 02:52:07 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:58511 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750783AbdHaGwG (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2017 02:52:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:52:04 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Kalle Valo Cc: David Miller , xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking Message-ID: <20170831065204.GA17812@amd> References: <87pobdt8qc.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <20170830.101143.2305098064824357647.davem@davemloft.net> <87val5rmh8.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <20170830.105447.125174575140677062.davem@davemloft.net> <87fuc8s5v9.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fuc8s5v9.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu 2017-08-31 07:44:58, Kalle Valo wrote: > David Miller writes: >=20 > > From: Kalle Valo > > Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:31:31 +0300 > > > >> AFAICS the bug was introduced by 9df86e2e702c6 back in 2010. If the bug > >> has been there for 7 years so waiting for a few more weeks should not > >> hurt. > > > > As a maintainer you have a right to handle bug fixing in that way, but > > certainly that is not how I would handle this. > > > > It's easy to validate this fix, it's extremely unlikely to cause > > a regression, and fixes a problem someone actually was able to > > trigger. > > > > Deferring to -next only has the side effect of making people wait > > longer for the fix. >=20 > Yeah, you are right there. I did actually ponder which I tree should > commit it back in July but due to various reasons decided differently. Can we still get the fix to v4.13-final? :-). Thanks, Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlmnshQACgkQMOfwapXb+vJNsgCfX036Hgk1RrEOFRJjB95fe7f/ 0n0AoJ7IEtEiYnyhR2NdHwwsBkjUmOXg =AwV2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6--