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David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:31:31 +0300
>
>> AFAICS the bug was introduced by 9df86e2e702c6 back in 2010. If the bug
>> has been there for 7 years so waiting for a few more weeks should not
>> hurt.
>
> As a maintainer you have a right to handle bug fixing in that way, but
> certainly that is not how I would handle this.
>
> It's easy to validate this fix, it's extremely unlikely to cause
> a regression, and fixes a problem someone actually was able to
> trigger.
>
> Deferring to -next only has the side effect of making people wait
> longer for the fix.

Yeah, you are right there. I did actually ponder which I tree should
commit it back in July but due to various reasons decided differently.

--
Kalle Valo

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