Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Stable and delay backports

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 11/03/2015 10:02 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> I'm still not clear, even after all the discussion, whether there's any
> value left to annotating the cc to stable with a delay backport.  I'm
> getting ready to post a fix to our block size calculations which make
> them completely accurate instead of within 5% like they were before.
> Technically this is a bug fix because people get distressed even over
> apparently losing 5% of their space, so it will have to be backported,
> but the algorithm has increased in complexity, so it would be better to
> incubate in main line for a while to make sure there are no further
> complaints.
>
> So the question: I think I heard Greg say you're automatically delaying
> merge window backports anyway, so there's no real need to add a separate
> delay tag, or is there?

Or you could just do it manually. Don't mark it stable, get it in 
mainline. Then send stable@ and email when you feel it's safe, asking 
them to pickup that commit.

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Jens Axboe