[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow
Mark Brown
broonie at kernel.org
Wed Aug 3 14:45:08 UTC 2016
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:57:38AM -0400, 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". Secondly, if the upstream review didn't
> catch the problems why would we suddenly catch them in a stable review?
Some of the stable trees don't even want the review - the -ckt ones for
example don't seem to leave any gap between sending out the "this patch
will be added" mails and the applied mails and I guess they're happy
with the results (I have to confess I killfiled their mails at some
point).
> The fact that possibly no-one reviewed the upstream patch indicates the
> need for a better upstream process (so something like we now have in
> SCSI which is no patches applied without one review tag), but expecting
> stable to fix our upstream process isn't going to work.
I think the concern here is fixes that are valid upstream but rely on
context that hasn't been backported.
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