[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow

Jiri Kosina jikos at kernel.org
Wed Aug 3 13:59:53 UTC 2016


On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, James Bottomley wrote:

> This isn't a viable approach.  Firstly stable review is less thorough
> than upstream review because the review mostly goes "yes, I already
> reviewed this in upstream".  

Which is exactly the problem I am trying to bring more attention to.

> Secondly, if the upstream review didn't catch the problems why would we 
> suddenly catch them in a stable review?

The patch was pretty fine for upstream, as it fixed a real bug there. But 
the buggy code wasn't present in -stable.

> The fact that possibly no-one reviewed the upstream patch indicates the 
> need for a better upstream process 

Again, that's not really the issue here. The patch was perfectly valid 
upstream.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



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