From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>,
"ksummit@lists.linux.dev" <ksummit@lists.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [4/4] Discuss how to better prevent backports of commits that turn out to cause regressions
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:14:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zms3F12AXGhErOrV@sashalap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0db30bc4-b646-43ec-bc0c-3b8b1372799d@lunn.ch>
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 04:28:47PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> * One cause of regressions that happen in stable trees (and not in
>> mainline) I've seen quite a few times are backports of commits with
>> Fixes: tags that were part of a patch-series and depend on earlier
>> patches from the series. The stable-team afaics has no easy way to spot
>> this, as there is no way to check "was this change part of a series".
>
>This sounds like a tooling issue. git send-email knows a patch is part
>of a patch series. Maybe it should be adding some sort of cross
>reference between patches in a patch series.
This came up in the past, and we have some machinery to check if a
commit is part of a series or not, but in practice most of the series we
see are actually not ones where patches depend on each other.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-13 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-13 8:22 [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [0/4] Common scenario for four proposals regarding regressions Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-13 8:26 ` [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [1/4] Create written down guidelines for handling regressions Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-09-12 13:33 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-13 8:32 ` [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [2/4] Ensure recent mainline regression are fixed in latest stable series Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-13 11:02 ` Johannes Berg
2024-06-13 11:21 ` Greg KH
2024-06-13 13:18 ` Sasha Levin
2024-06-13 11:17 ` Jiri Kosina
2024-06-13 11:28 ` Laurent Pinchart
2024-06-14 0:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-06-14 14:01 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-14 14:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-06-13 8:34 ` [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [3/4] Elevate handling of regressions that made it to releases deemed for end users Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-13 11:34 ` Laurent Pinchart
2024-06-13 11:39 ` Jiri Kosina
2024-06-14 14:10 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-18 12:58 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-19 20:25 ` Laurent Pinchart
2024-06-20 10:47 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-13 15:56 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-06-18 12:24 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-20 13:20 ` Jani Nikula
2024-06-20 13:35 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-20 14:16 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-21 6:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2024-06-21 10:19 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-13 8:42 ` [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [4/4] Discuss how to better prevent backports of commits that turn out to cause regressions Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-13 9:59 ` Jan Kara
2024-06-13 10:18 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-13 14:08 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-14 9:19 ` Lee Jones
2024-06-14 9:24 ` Lee Jones
2024-06-14 12:27 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-14 14:26 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-14 14:36 ` Lee Jones
2024-06-14 14:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2024-06-14 14:38 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-14 14:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-06-14 15:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-06-15 11:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2024-06-17 10:15 ` Jani Nikula
2024-06-17 12:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-06-14 15:45 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-14 14:43 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-14 14:51 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-14 15:42 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-14 14:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-06-14 14:57 ` Laurent Pinchart
2024-06-16 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-06-16 3:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-06-16 4:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-06-16 8:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-06-16 9:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-06-16 15:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-06-17 13:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-06-17 15:23 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-06-17 14:39 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-17 16:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-17 16:06 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-17 16:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-06-17 16:18 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-06-17 17:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-06-18 12:05 ` Michael Ellerman
2024-06-16 7:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2024-06-16 8:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-06-16 11:31 ` Laurent Pinchart
2024-06-16 11:39 ` Takashi Iwai
2024-06-16 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-06-16 8:31 ` Jiri Kosina
2024-06-16 8:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-06-13 19:39 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-06-14 1:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-06-13 11:58 ` James Bottomley
2024-06-13 13:06 ` Sasha Levin
2024-06-13 13:56 ` James Bottomley
2024-06-13 14:02 ` Greg KH
2024-06-13 15:11 ` James Bottomley
2024-06-13 16:27 ` Greg KH
2024-06-14 18:47 ` Sasha Levin
2024-06-17 10:59 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-13 18:08 ` Sasha Levin
2024-06-13 13:45 ` Greg KH
2024-06-13 13:40 ` Sasha Levin
2024-06-18 13:12 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-13 14:28 ` Andrew Lunn
2024-06-13 18:14 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2024-06-14 14:41 ` Jan Kara
2024-06-14 15:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2024-06-14 17:46 ` Sasha Levin
2024-06-18 14:43 ` [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [0/4] Common scenario for four proposals regarding regressions James Bottomley
2024-06-18 15:50 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-20 10:32 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-20 12:57 ` James Bottomley
2024-06-20 13:55 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-20 14:01 ` James Bottomley
2024-06-20 14:42 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-20 16:02 ` James Bottomley
2024-06-20 17:15 ` Mark Brown
2024-06-20 23:25 ` Sasha Levin
2024-06-21 6:33 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
[not found] ` <20240625175131.672d14a4@rorschach.local.home>
2024-06-26 7:36 ` Greg KH
2024-06-26 18:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-06-26 19:05 ` James Bottomley
2024-07-25 10:14 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-07-25 13:14 ` Greg KH
2024-06-20 16:59 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-06-20 23:18 ` Sasha Levin
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