Re: [GIT] Networking
From: David Miller
Date: Wed Aug 30 2017 - 13:54:54 EST
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:31:31 +0300
> AFAICS the bug was introduced by 9df86e2e702c6 back in 2010. If the bug
> has been there for 7 years so waiting for a few more weeks should not
> hurt.
As a maintainer you have a right to handle bug fixing in that way, but
certainly that is not how I would handle this.
It's easy to validate this fix, it's extremely unlikely to cause
a regression, and fixes a problem someone actually was able to
trigger.
Deferring to -next only has the side effect of making people wait
longer for the fix.