Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

[Li Zefan]

> It is *my* conception of the stable branch, but I think that many people
> have different expectations about what should be merged or not. For example
> in old LTS branches, I used to merge what was relevant for servers only,

We have lots of embeded systems running 2.6.32 kernel. And we encountered
a critical bug, and we had to backported some patches which are not bug fixes
to prevent the bug from happening.

> because I saw no reason why an old kernel would be used on a laptop (eg:
> 2.4). So I always skipped wifi, alsa, drm, etc... With 2.6.32, the Debian
> kernel guys provided me with a lot of fixes in these areas, explaining
> that these fixes addressed issues that their users were facing, and they
> were perfectly right. It's just that I didn't expect this at all.


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