From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:12:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <235b856857d912d93ea00685b20baa5b66800c83.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201204154911.GZ643756@sasha-vm>
On Fri, 2020-12-04 at 10:49 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 09:27:28AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 01/12/20 00:59, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > >
> > > It's quite easy to NAK a patch too, just reply saying "no" and it'll be
> > > dropped (just like this patch was dropped right after your first reply)
> > > so the burden on maintainers is minimal.
> >
> > The maintainers are _already_ marking patches with "Cc: stable". That
>
> They're not, though. Some forget, some subsystems don't mark anything,
> some don't mark it as it's not stable material when it lands in their
> tree but then it turns out to be one if it sits there for too long.
>
> > (plus backports) is where the burden on maintainers should start and
> > end. I don't see the need to second guess them.
>
> This is similar to describing our CI infrastructure as "second
> guessing": why are we second guessing authors and maintainers who are
> obviously doing the right thing by testing their patches and reporting
> issues to them?
>
> Are you saying that you have always gotten stable tags right? never
> missed a stable tag where one should go?
I think this simply adds to the burden of being a maintainer
without all that much value.
I think the primary value here would be getting people to upgrade to
current versions rather than backporting to nominally stable and
relatively actively changed old versions.
This is very much related to this thread about trivial patches
and maintainer burdening:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1c7d7fde126bc0acf825766de64bf2f9b888f216.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-04 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-25 15:35 [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 01/33] HID: uclogic: Add ID for Trust Flex Design Tablet Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 02/33] HID: ite: Replace ABS_MISC 120/121 events with touchpad on/off keypresses Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 03/33] HID: cypress: Support Varmilo Keyboards' media hotkeys Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 04/33] HID: add support for Sega Saturn Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 05/33] Input: i8042 - allow insmod to succeed on devices without an i8042 controller Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 06/33] HID: hid-sensor-hub: Fix issue with devices with no report ID Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 07/33] staging: ralink-gdma: fix kconfig dependency bug for DMA_RALINK Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 08/33] HID: add HID_QUIRK_INCREMENT_USAGE_ON_DUPLICATE for Gamevice devices Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 09/33] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: use readl_poll_timeout_atomic variant Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 10/33] x86/xen: don't unbind uninitialized lock_kicker_irq Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 11/33] kunit: fix display of failed expectations for strings Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 12/33] HID: logitech-hidpp: Add HIDPP_CONSUMER_VENDOR_KEYS quirk for the Dinovo Edge Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 13/33] HID: Add Logitech Dinovo Edge battery quirk Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 14/33] proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 15/33] nvme: free sq/cq dbbuf pointers when dbbuf set fails Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 16/33] io_uring: handle -EOPNOTSUPP on path resolution Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 17/33] net: stmmac: dwmac_lib: enlarge dma reset timeout Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 18/33] vdpasim: fix "mac_pton" undefined error Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 19/33] vhost: add helper to check if a vq has been setup Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 20/33] vhost scsi: alloc cmds per vq instead of session Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 21/33] vhost scsi: fix cmd completion race Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 17:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-25 18:01 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 18:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-29 4:13 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-29 17:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-29 21:06 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-30 8:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 13:28 ` Greg KH
2020-11-30 13:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 13:57 ` Greg KH
2020-11-30 14:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 17:34 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-30 17:38 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-30 17:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 19:44 ` Mike Christie
2020-11-30 20:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-30 23:59 ` Sasha Levin
2020-12-04 8:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-04 15:49 ` Sasha Levin
2020-12-04 16:12 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-12-04 17:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-12-05 20:59 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 23/33] vhost scsi: Add support for LUN resets Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 24/33] cpuidle: tegra: Annotate tegra_pm_set_cpu_in_lp2() with RCU_NONIDLE Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 25/33] dmaengine: pl330: _prep_dma_memcpy: Fix wrong burst size Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 26/33] scsi: libiscsi: Fix NOP race condition Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 27/33] scsi: target: iscsi: Fix cmd abort fabric stop race Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 28/33] lockdep: Put graph lock/unlock under lock_recursion protection Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 29/33] perf/x86: fix sysfs type mismatches Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 30/33] xtensa: uaccess: Add missing __user to strncpy_from_user() prototype Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 31/33] x86/dumpstack: Do not try to access user space code of other tasks Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 32/33] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Wait for EEPROM done after HW reset Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 15:35 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 33/33] xfs: don't allow NOWAIT DIO across extent boundaries Sasha Levin
2020-11-25 21:52 ` Dave Chinner
2020-11-25 23:46 ` Sasha Levin
2020-11-26 7:13 ` Dave Chinner
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