Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:40:45 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 21:22 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 3/3/22 15:38, Joe Perches wrote: > > One argument is that churn leads to difficulty in backporting > > fixes to older 'stable' versions. > > > > I think the churn argument is overstated. > > I'm often backporting patches to older kernels and I think the churn argument > has not been emphasized enough. Backporting patches is a normal aspect of a > product lifecycle since a kernel version is chosen when development of a > product starts and bugfixes are cherry-picked from upstream selectively.
Stable backporting is almost certainly what people get _paid_ to do.
IMO the most important tree is the current one not backports to stable.
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