On Apr 14 Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Stefan Richter > <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Apr 14 Felipe Contreras wrote: > > >> Of course, although the difference with the stable kernel would be > >> very small if the only thing added is an extra rule for acceptance: > >> "It reverts an earlier patch to 'stable'." > > > > It looks like a small difference on the surface, but it isn't. It would > > mean "yes, we /do/ forward ports in -stable too in some cases". > > How? There's a lot reverts in mainline, where do they come from? Are > they forward ports from some ghost trees? Indeed, reverts that go into mainline can often be called forward-ports: A subsystem developer applied the revert to his subsystem tree, Linus merges that tree, and the merge result is technically a forward-port (except if the pull resulted in a fast-forward instead of a merge). However, "fix it in stable before mainline" requires to allow forward-ports in stable for a different reason: If the fix in mainline gets delayed until after stable's next branch point, the stable fix needs to be forward-ported from 3.M.y to 3.N.y. > If you drop a patch from the stable review queue before it gets into a > stable release, and then that patch is reverted from mainline, is that > also a "forward port"? There is just one fix of one bug, not a fix plus a port of the fix to a similarly buggy tree. -- Stefan Richter -=====-===-- -=-- -===- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
