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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid
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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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