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 48D9B78D for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 18:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDA852F7 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 18:57:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 20:57:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Guenter Roeck In-Reply-To: <57A21F88.7000504@roeck-us.net> Message-ID: References: <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> <20160803141937.GA9180@kroah.com> <57A21252.7000407@roeck-us.net> <20160803161234.GA32965@dtor-ws> <57A21F88.7000504@roeck-us.net> 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, Guenter Roeck wrote: > How can one reasonable expect a stable maintainer to determine if a > patch for an oddball architecture applies, or one for a random subsystem? So *who* is supposed to be *the* responsible person for cherry-picking the patch and verifying that it is applicable to particular -stable? The statement above suggests that it's definitely not a responsibility of stable branch maintainer. OTOH Greg (and not only him) argues that maintainers are already overloaded, so asking them to actually prepare patches for particular stable trees (at least the ones they care about) is too much to ask. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs