Re: [PATCH 4.5 109/238] mtip32xx: Print exact time when an internal command is interrupted

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Tue Apr 12 2016 - 02:30:01 EST


On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:06:13PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 03:48:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 11:34 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.5-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Asai Thambi SP <asamymuthupa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > commit 5b7e0a8ac85e2dfd83830dc9e0b3554d153a37e3 upstream.
> > >
> > > Print exact time when an internal command is interrupted.
> > [...]
> >
> > There's no way that's important enough for stable.
>
> I think one of the following patches needed it :(

Also in general I'd rather encourage maintainers to push their fixes
into stable than give up early and leave bogus code behind them considering
it's not their problem anymore once released. If someone cares enough to
fix code in -stable and introduces a regression, 1) we know how to revert
and 2) the same person will likely feel concerned by the issue and help
fix it.

Just my 2 cents,
Willy