[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Greg KH wrote:

> Real examples from now on please, if there are problems in the stable 
> workflow that we have today, everyone needs to show it with examples, 
> I'm tired of seeing mental gymnastics around stable kernels just because 
> it is "fun".

Let me pick an example I personally had a lot of issues quite some time 
ago:

	https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/22/259

This was a patch that got added to -stable to fix a problem that didn't 
exist there. It caused system bustage almost immediately, which indicates 
that very limited testing has been done prior to releasing the patch.

I believe that patches like this should really be caught during -stable 
review; anyone familiar with the VFS code and actually looking at the 
patch would notice immediately that it's fixing a bug that doesn't exist 
in the code at all in the first place; that seems to indicate that noone 
has actually explicitly reviewed it for -stable, and therefore it's 
questionable whether it should have been applied.

Has anything changed in the process that'd just make patches like this one 
to be not merged these days?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs