Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:36:56 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]vmscan: handle underflow for get_scan_ratio |
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On 04/02/2010 05:13 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >>> Yeah, I don't want ignore .33-stable too. if I can't find the root cause >>> in 2-3 days, I'll revert guilty patch anyway. >>> >> >> It's a good idea to avoid fixing a bug one-way-in-stable, >> other-way-in-mainline. Because then we have new code in both trees >> which is different. And the -stable guys sensibly like to see code get >> a bit of a shakedown in mainline before backporting it. >> >> So it would be better to merge the "simple" patch into mainline, tagged >> for -stable backporting. Then we can later implement the larger fix in >> mainline, perhaps starting by reverting the "simple" fix. > > .....ok. I don't have to prevent your code maintainship. although I still > think we need to fix the issue completely.
Agreed on the revert.
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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