Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:11:47 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline |
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:41:24PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 11:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Anyway, the point I'm making is that Q&A is limited and often even > > actively misleading ("Hey, I have three tested-by's, so it must be > > fine"), and we might actually want to have a new class of > > "non-critical patch that might be worth backporting to stable, but > > only do so after it's been in a release for some time". Because while > > it might be an "obvious" fix, maybe it's not critical enough that it > > needs to be backported _now_ - maybe it could wait a month or two, and > > get wider testing. > > Should we add another stable tag? > > Have the default Cc: stable have to wait a rc or two in mainline before > it makes its way to the stable tree. Have a stable-critical for those > that are bugs that are security fixes than need to be backported ASAP.
People mark stable patches that way already today with a: Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # delay for 3.12-rc4 or some such wording. I take those and don't apply them until the noted release happens, so you can do this if needed.
greg k-h
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