Re: Linux 4.19 stable bump

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On 2019-02-22 05:59:00 [-0800], Jason Self wrote:
> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > If it is in fact stable, why did it receive four new "RT only"
> > patches on its last upload?
> 
> It was based on what you had said last month [0] that "given how long
> v4.19-RT is out, it should "stable" / it should not have any known bugs
> / regressions. If so, I am not aware of it. If there is anything,
> please let me know" along with the rest of that email.
> 
> Hence usage of the word "perhaps" in my email. Of course there's no gua
> rantee that problems aren't discovered later, which seems to be what
> you're referring to, just like "around August I backported a handful
> patches for v4.9-RT because futex was broken in some corner cases."

Yes. So I didn't add my FPU patches into the v4.19 tree because it is
big and it might introduce bugs which might be discovered late. But I
need a tree where I add patches/fixes. So I can't hand over the tree
before I have another one.

> [0] https://marc.info/?l=linux-rt-users&m=154878524016446&w=2

Sebastian



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