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 9AD19413 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 15:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 353FC1F5 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 15:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 17:47:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Takashi Iwai In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <3268954.rXb0BJAX6c@vostro.rjw.lan> <87oa5aqjmq.fsf@intel.com> <20160803110935.GA26270@kroah.com> <87a8guq9y8.fsf@intel.com> <20160803132607.GA31662@kroah.com> <1470232658.2482.42.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1470233095.2482.46.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20160803212332.576bb718@grimm.local.home> <20160804082018.GA27204@kroah.com> <20160804093355.30096bbe@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: James Bottomley , Trond Myklebust , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Agreed that it's a good practice. But what if a fix isn't a > regression fix? Many stable patches are trivial ones like PCI ID > additions. If it's not a bugfix, the applicability to -stable is very questionable in my eyes. Device IDs might be made the same exception as post-merge window PCI ID additions to Linus' tree. Even there, post -rc1, everything should be bugfix, but device ID additions are allowed. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs