Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

[Willy Tarreau]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:12:04PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> > 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.

If these patches are not too numerous nor too big, and that what they fix is
really obvious, it could be useful to discuss their merging on the stable list,
especially if you believe the bug is not specific to your environment.

Thanks,
Willy

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