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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] ip: fix truesize mismatch in ip fragmentation
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, David Miller wrote:
> > Since there wasn't one, and I didn't readly find any post in this thread
> > that mentioned it should also go to stable, AND it looked at first glance
> > like something that should go to stable, I asked about it.
>
> Sorry, that is not how we typically handle things in the networking.
>
> I queue up all appropriate -stable patches automatically.

I see.

> I want fixes to sit and cook in Linus's tree for a while before
> they go to -stable unless it's an _incredibly_ obvious fix.
> This allows any bugs in the fix to be shaken out first.

...

> All of the rest should be carefully queued up for -stable and
> submitted there after a week or two of the patch sitting in Linus's
> tree.

That is a very good way of doing things. Thanks for the hard work!

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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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