On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 03:43:56PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On 2018-02-14 03:08 PM, Sean Paul wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:26:35AM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > >> Op 14-02-18 om 09:46 schreef Lukas Wunner: > >>> Dear drm-misc maintainers, > >>> > >>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:38:28AM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote: > >>>> Fix a deadlock on hybrid graphics laptops that's been present since 2013: > >>> This series has been reviewed, consent has been expressed by the most > >>> interested parties, patch [1/5] which touches files outside drivers/gpu > >>> has been acked and I've just out a v2 addressing the only objection > >>> raised. My plan is thus to wait another two days for comments and, > >>> barring further objections, push to drm-misc this weekend. > >>> > >>> However I'm struggling with the decision whether to push to next or > >>> fixes. The series is marked for stable, however the number of > >>> affected machines is limited and for an issue that's been present > >>> for 5 years it probably doesn't matter if it soaks another two months > >>> in linux-next befor it gets backported. Hence I tend to err on the > >>> side of caution and push to next, however a case could be made that > >>> fixes is more appropriate. > >>> > >>> I'm lacking experience making such decisions and would be interested > >>> to learn how you'd handle this. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Lukas > >> > >> I would say fixes, it doesn't look particularly scary. :) > > > > Agreed. If it's good enough for stable, it's good enough for -fixes! > > It's not that simple, is it? Fast-tracking patches (some of which appear > to be untested) to stable without an immediate cause for urgency seems > risky to me. > /me should be more careful what he says Given where we are in the release cycle, it's barely a fast track. If these go in -fixes, they'll get in -rc2 and will have plenty of time to bake. If we were at rc5, it might be a different story. Sean > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com > Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer -- Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
