Re: [BISECTED] "conservative" cpufreq governor broken

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 07:17:40 EST


On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Steven Noonan wrote:
> > Well, probably because the machine never switched to NOHZ :)
> >
> >> > Also, this fix should probably be passed on to Greg K. H. (so it goes
> >> > in 2.6.31-stable) as well as Ingo Molnar (so it goes into -tip, and
> >> > hopefully to Linus for 2.6.32). Both CC'd.
> >
> > Don't worry, it'll go the right way. No need to cc the world and some
> > more :)
> >
>
> Sorry if it's not kosher. I was told that when dealing with a
> bisection you should CC:
> 1. those involved with a bisected patch (the Signed-off-by people),
> 2. those responsible for the affected subsystem (doing an author check
> via script[1]),
> 3. and those to whom a fix should be passed on to.
>
> Any tips so I don't bug the wrong people (or too many people) in the future?

No worry. It's just Linus and Greg who got some extra mail into their
inbox. The flow is that the patch is picked up by the maintainer and
pushed into his git tree which is then offered to Linus for pulling it
into mainline. We add a Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx tag to the commit, which
triggers a notifier to the stable kernel team when the patch hits
Linus tree.

Thanks,

tglx
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