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 2869A7AA for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 13:48:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF274186 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 13:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:48:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20160803132607.GA31662@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <871t27s1i8.fsf@intel.com> <20160802153400.GD10376@sirena.org.uk> <3268954.rXb0BJAX6c@vostro.rjw.lan> <87oa5aqjmq.fsf@intel.com> <20160803110935.GA26270@kroah.com> <87a8guq9y8.fsf@intel.com> <20160803132607.GA31662@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: James Bottomley , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Greg KH wrote: > Real examples from now on please, if there are problems in the stable > workflow that we have today, everyone needs to show it with examples, > I'm tired of seeing mental gymnastics around stable kernels just because > it is "fun". Let me pick an example I personally had a lot of issues quite some time ago: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/22/259 This was a patch that got added to -stable to fix a problem that didn't exist there. It caused system bustage almost immediately, which indicates that very limited testing has been done prior to releasing the patch. I believe that patches like this should really be caught during -stable review; anyone familiar with the VFS code and actually looking at the patch would notice immediately that it's fixing a bug that doesn't exist in the code at all in the first place; that seems to indicate that noone has actually explicitly reviewed it for -stable, and therefore it's questionable whether it should have been applied. Has anything changed in the process that'd just make patches like this one to be not merged these days? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs