Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:59:59 -0500 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 22/33] vhost scsi: add lun parser helper |
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 09:29:02PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >On 30/11/20 20:44, Mike Christie wrote: >>I have never seen a public/open-source vhost-scsi testsuite. >> >>For patch 23 (the one that adds the lun reset support which is built on >>patch 22), we can't add it to stable right now if you wanted to, because >>it has a bug in it. Michael T, sent the fix: >> >>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git/commit/?h=linux-next&id=b4fffc177fad3c99ee049611a508ca9561bb6871 >> >>to Linus today. > >Ok, so at least it was only a close call and anyway not for something >that most people would be running on their machines. But it still >seems to me that the state of CI in Linux is abysmal compared to what >is needed to arbitrarily(*) pick up patches and commit them to >"stable" trees. > >Paolo > >(*) A ML bot is an arbitrary choice as far as we are concerned since >we cannot know how it makes a decision.
The choice of patches is "arbitrary", but the decision is human. The patches are reviewed coming out of the AI, sent to public mailing list(s) for review, followed by 2 reminders asking for reviews.
The process for AUTOSEL patches generally takes longer than most patches do for upstream.
It's quite easy to NAK a patch too, just reply saying "no" and it'll be dropped (just like this patch was dropped right after your first reply) so the burden on maintainers is minimal.
-- Thanks, Sasha
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