Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:58:57 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes |
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On Mon 2018-04-16 12:53:07, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:43:13 +0000 > Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > >If you are worried about people not putting enough "Stable: " tags in > > >their commits, perhaps you can write them emails "hey, I think this > > >should go to stable, do you agree"? You should get people marking > > >their commits themselves pretty quickly... > > > > Greg has been doing this for years, ask him how that worked out for him. > > Then he shouldn't pull in the fix. Let it be broken. As soon as someone > complains about it being broken, then bug the maintainer again. "Hey, > this is broken in 4.x, and this looks like the fix for it. Do you > agree?" > > I agree that some patches don't need this discussion. Things that are > obvious. Off-by-one and stack-overflow and other bugs like that. Or > another common bug is error paths that don't release locks. These > should just be backported. But subtle fixes like this thread should > default to (not backport unless someones complains or the > author/maintainer acks it).
Agreed. And it scares me we are even discussing this.
Pavel
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