[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:12:42PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:48:34 +0530
> Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > But the person might be slightly better off than you or me :-)
> > 
> 
> I still believe that it comes down to the maintainer making the final
> decision about marking a patch as stable. If they don't have the
> hardware to test it, then they should then ask the patch submitter to
> test for stable. If the submitter doesn't want to for whatever reason,
> then that patch simply shouldn't be marked for stable.

Agreed, that's the reason I was asking if we should ask submitters. But
looks like that adds a cost which no one wants to be burdened with!

-- 
~Vinod