On 30/11/20 14:57, Greg KH wrote:
Every patch should be "fixing a real issue"---even a new feature. But the
larger the patch, the more the submitters and maintainers should be trusted
rather than a bot. The line between feature and bugfix_sometimes_ is
blurry, I would say that in this case it's not, and it makes me question how
the bot decided that this patch would be acceptable for stable (which AFAIK
is not something that can be answered).
I thought that earlier Sasha said that this patch was needed as a
prerequisite patch for a later fix, right? If not, sorry, I've lost the
train of thought in this thread...
Yeah---sorry I am replying to 22/33 but referring to 23/33, which is the
one that in my opinion should not be blindly accepted for stable kernels
without the agreement of the submitter or maintainer.
Paolo
