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 40750480 for ; Wed, 2 May 2018 15:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ua0-f173.google.com (mail-ua0-f173.google.com [209.85.217.173]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 706DD681 for ; Wed, 2 May 2018 15:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ua0-f173.google.com with SMTP id a3so9749080uad.8 for ; Wed, 02 May 2018 08:32:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20180501163818.GD1468@sasha-vm> References: <20180501163818.GD1468@sasha-vm> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 17:32:37 +0200 Message-ID: To: Sasha Levin Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Greg KH , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "w@1wt.eu" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Sasha, On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > Working on AUTOSEL, it became even more obvious to me how difficult it is for a > patch to get a proper review. Maintainers found it difficult to keep up with > the upstream work for their subsystem, and reviewing additional -stable patches > put even more load on them which some suggested would be more than what they > can handle. Thanks for your work! > - For some reason, the odds of a -rc commit to be targetted for -stable is > over 20%, while for merge window commits it's about 3%. I can't quite > explain why that happens, but this would suggest that -rc commits end up > hurting -stable pretty badly. Aren't more -rc commits targeted for -stable because they are bugfixes? Ideally, new features are supposed to be merged during the merge window, while -rc commits fix bugs. So they can be categorized like: 1. Plain -rc commits, 2. -rc commits fixing a bug: a. in the same release cycle, b. in a previous release. 2a assumes the bug was backported to -stable, too, doesn't it? Do you have statistics for which categories are most buggy? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds