We do obviously take patches that are bigger than 100 lines, as thereLines of code is not everything. If you think that this needs additionalStarting with the first two steps in stable-kernel-rules.rst:
testing then that's fine and we can drop it, but not picking up a fix
just because it's 120 lines is not something we'd do.
Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
"-stable" tree:
- It must be obviously correct and tested.
- It cannot be bigger than 100 lines, with context.
are always exceptions to the rules here. Look at all of the
spectre/meltdown patches as one such example. Should we refuse a patch
just because it fixes a real issue yet is 101 lines long?