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([2001:b07:6468:f312:c8dd:75d4:99ab:290a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t8sm3642431eju.69.2020.12.04.09.08.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:08:14 -0800 (PST) To: Sasha Levin Cc: Mike Christie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Jason Wang , "Michael S . Tsirkin" , Stefan Hajnoczi , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20201129041314.GO643756@sasha-vm> <7a4c3d84-8ff7-abd9-7340-3a6d7c65cfa7@redhat.com> <20201129210650.GP643756@sasha-vm> <20201130173832.GR643756@sasha-vm> <238cbdd1-dabc-d1c1-cff8-c9604a0c9b95@redhat.com> <9ec7dff6-d679-ce19-5e77-f7bcb5a63442@oracle.com> <4c1b2bc7-cf50-4dcd-bfd4-be07e515de2a@redhat.com> <20201130235959.GS643756@sasha-vm> <6c49ded5-bd8f-f219-0c51-3500fd751633@redhat.com> <20201204154911.GZ643756@sasha-vm> From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 18:08:13 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201204154911.GZ643756@sasha-vm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On 04/12/20 16:49, 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. That means some subsystems will be worse as far as stable release support goes. That's not a problem: - some subsystems have people paid to do backports to LTS releases when patches don't apply; others don't, if the patch doesn't apply the bug is simply not fixed in LTS releases - some subsystems are worse than others even in "normal" releases :) >> (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? No, it's not the same. CI helps finding bugs before you have to waste time spending bisecting regressions across thousands of commits. The lack of stable tags _can_ certainly be a problem, but it solves itself sooner or later when people upgrade their kernel. > Are you saying that you have always gotten stable tags right? never > missed a stable tag where one should go? Of course I did, just like I have introduced bugs. But at least I try to do my best both at adding stable tags and at not introducing bugs. Paolo