On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 12:11:46PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-09-11 at 17:02 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Partly, yes, but the bug isn't always directly in the tree where the
> > fix is going so it can be a bit less clear and sometimes the delay is
> > on the pull side (eg, due to holidays or whatever).  It's a lot
> > simpler to just put the tree in -next.

> There is a downside to putting the upper and lower trees in -next,
> particularly if they're out of sync like you describe above in that it
> will likely cause a conflict.  Now Stephen usually resolves these but
> it's going to cause him way more problems if we adopt this approach.

It's not a particularly new approach, it's pretty standard at this
point - the situations where it doesn't happen are more the outliers.
I'm not sure conflicts are a particularly big issue, the stuff I was
thinking about above was more latent bugs being exposed like race
conditions.