Re: bug-introducing patches (or: -rc cycles suck)

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Apr 30 2018 - 14:39:22 EST


On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 05:58:30PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Working on AUTOSEL, it became even more obvious to me how difficult it is for a patch to get a proper review. Maintainers found it difficult to keep up with the upstream work for their subsystem, and reviewing additional -stable patches put even more load on them which some suggested would be more than what they can handle.
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/me hands Sasha some extra '\n' characters

This is great info. Can you reformat your email to be sane and send
this to the ksummit discuss mailing list? I think the audience there
might be a bit more receptive than the noise that is lkml at times :)

thanks,

greg k-h