Re: [PATCH 0/3] RDMA/hns: Bug fixes in hns RoCE driver

[Dennis Dalessandro]

On 11/28/2017 2:33 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 06:50:44PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 11:39 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 08:20:09AM -0500, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> > > > I could resubmit just the series, or you could just pick the 4 driver
> > > > patches from patchworks whatever is easiest.
> > >
> > > I marked them in patchworks, but can you review the commit messages
> > > and make sure you think Linus will see them as rc material too?
> >
> > My understanding is that the rc stage is intended primarily for fixes for
> > bugs introduced during the merge window. For all patches that do not fix
> > bugs introduced during the merge window it should be evaluated carefully
> > whether or not these are important enough to be included in a rc pull request.
>
> Oh? I thought it was more up to the maintainer discretion within some
> limits. Eg I thought we were running rdma more with the 'if it is OK
> for -stable, then it is OK -rc' kind of mentality?

That's always been my understanding.

> eg -rc is for stablization and bugfixing only, and not restricted only
> to bugs introduced in the latest merge window??

Makes no sense to me to have a hard restriction here. Security fixes, 
panics, and other serious bugs should certainly qualify. Of course that 
is subject to how complex the fix is.

-Denny