From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D0007AA for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 11:12:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk (mezzanine.sirena.org.uk [106.187.55.193]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5ACC1A9 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 11:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 12:12:15 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Jani Nikula Message-ID: <20160803111215.GP10376@sirena.org.uk> References: <871t27s1i8.fsf@intel.com> <20160802153400.GD10376@sirena.org.uk> <3268954.rXb0BJAX6c@vostro.rjw.lan> <87oa5aqjmq.fsf@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3LbzE+0aVzOo6fIw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87oa5aqjmq.fsf@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley , Trond Myklebust , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --3LbzE+0aVzOo6fIw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:36:29PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > However, I presume maintainers don't add cc: stable lightly, even when > the fix could benefit stable kernel users, if there's any risk of the > backport coming back to haunt you. I believe maintainers assume some > degree of responsibility for the backport when they add cc: stable, even > when they don't have the means to do QA. (And with the plethora of > longterm kernels around these days, who does?) > But does being more liberal in adding cc: stable tags and shifting the > responsibility for backports towards stable kernel maintainers work I'm not saying be *more* liberal, I'm saying that's pretty much where we're at at the minute. > either? The bugs will anyway be reported to subsystem/driver > maintainers, not stable maintainers. That's not happening in my experience, people working with stable seem to generally involve the stable people in the few cases where there's a problem. --3LbzE+0aVzOo6fIw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXodGOAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQenYIAIXcYT009J9Q1JtrQfaTqUdA IRprsJN9PulJyQryix+AusgLEDr1qPVPmO5y+5XbBI8t3I9dt2vYa43QQ5Y2O47Y l8jwJL+tDRh/rYnVNnK+5umBzvTLvesSPA5fd2QQ7aor4DiQE0deagmA0JY3+AWv Ii/VPsbPgC9cAY8/zCRtJD8in321WvNmchhn5tB8mHGVIcWmozNkd0rdiSeY7p3n Z0q+MuiVBpDshHWlhab7w2fuwzlyDFKSsYLUyIiYhETsv5khmlJ8aOxqWWN2KqgW 3tkp24pkmhNtDFbFF5PB8bUSj5KGRg84XSfbsNrgi1QRjtIs7wHL1kLoDGmajDg= =L5Km -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3LbzE+0aVzOo6fIw--