Re: [PATCH v8 08/17] tpm: call tpm2_flush_space() on error in tpm_try_transmit()

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 06:21:57PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> There's no "preferred" approach really. I try to warn about cases like
> this early because the response rates to Greg's "FAILED" email seem to
> be low - by the time they are sent out people are done with that code
> and have moved on.
> 
> In this scenario, for exmaple, this patch would not apply to any stable
> tree because it depends on a previous patch in this series that was not
> tagged for stable. My hopes are that if I warn you about this early you
> can work around this (for example, by marking that prior patch for
> stable as well) so you won't need to deal with this patch again in a few
> weeks.
> 
> There's no need to change anything about your flow if it works for you.

Ok, I see. Yeah, it is just how I organize my work. Rather solve the
patch dependency sudoku one time than two times.

When I maintain a subsystem I've thought that it is my responsibility to
always do that and not wait someone else to do it for me :-) That is the
responsibility part of the equation when you have the power to decide
what gets in.

Right now I have two failed merges in my queue that I plan to take care
of them next week.

> Thanks,
> Sasha

/Jarkko