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    SubjectRe: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline
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    On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 20:50 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
    > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:01:17PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > > <rant>
    > > I'm sitting on top of over 170 more patches that have been marked for
    > > the stable releases right now that are not included in this set of
    > > releases. The fact that there are this many patches for stable stuff
    > > that are waiting to be merged through the main -rc1 merge window cycle
    > > is worrying to me.
    > >
    > > Why are subsystem maintainers holding on to fixes that are
    > > _supposedly_ affecting all users? I mean, 21 powerpc core changes
    > > that I don't see until a -rc1 merge? It's as if developers don't
    > > expect people to use a .0 release and are relying on me to get the
    > > fixes they have burried in their trees out to users. That's not that
    > > nice. 6 "core" iscsi-target fixes? That's the sign of either a
    > > broken subsystem maintainer, or a lack of understanding what the
    > > normal -rc kernel releases are supposed to be for.
    >

    In my defense here, the patches that have been CC'ed to 3.10.y stable
    are to address bugs in iser-target, and it's interaction with existing
    iscsi-target code after the large set of refactoring changes went in to
    support multi-transport operation.

    The reasons that they where not included in a v3.10-rc pull request is
    because the bugs where found sufficiently late enough in the cycle, and
    required large enough changes plus a non trival amount of manual failure
    injection testing to verify their correctness.

    --nab



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