Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Dec 2020 15:59:00 -0500 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper |
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On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 06:08:13PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >On 04/12/20 16:49, Sasha Levin wrote: >>On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 09:27:28AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>>On 01/12/20 00:59, Sasha Levin wrote: >>>> >>>>It's quite easy to NAK a patch too, just reply saying "no" and it'll be >>>>dropped (just like this patch was dropped right after your first reply) >>>>so the burden on maintainers is minimal. >>> >>>The maintainers are _already_ marking patches with "Cc: stable". >>>That >> >>They're not, though. Some forget, some subsystems don't mark anything, >>some don't mark it as it's not stable material when it lands in their >>tree but then it turns out to be one if it sits there for too long. > >That means some subsystems will be worse as far as stable release >support goes. That's not a problem: > >- some subsystems have people paid to do backports to LTS releases >when patches don't apply; others don't, if the patch doesn't apply the >bug is simply not fixed in LTS releases
Why not? A warning mail is originated and folks fix those up. I fixed a whole bunch of these myself for subsystems I'm not "paid" to do so.
>- some subsystems are worse than others even in "normal" releases :)
Agree with that.
>>>(plus backports) is where the burden on maintainers should start >>>and end. I don't see the need to second guess them. >> >>This is similar to describing our CI infrastructure as "second >>guessing": why are we second guessing authors and maintainers who are >>obviously doing the right thing by testing their patches and reporting >>issues to them? > >No, it's not the same. CI helps finding bugs before you have to waste >time spending bisecting regressions across thousands of commits. The >lack of stable tags _can_ certainly be a problem, but it solves itself >sooner or later when people upgrade their kernel.
If just waiting with fixing issues is ok until a user might "eventually" upgrade is acceptable then why bother with a stable tree to begin with?
-- Thanks, Sasha
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