On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 09:42:48AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Personally, I still let my stable patches that go into later -rc sit > in linux-next for a few days before pushing them to mainline. I may even > wait for the next -rc to push it just to make sure the patch wont cause > more issues. But I know others that just send the fix directly to > mainline without going through linux-next. Those, I would think, are the > most prone to cause issues in stable. This is also what I suspected though I have no data to confirm or deny that. If this happens to be the case, maybe then there should be some barrier such as : - everything merged at -rc4 or before gets backported after the next -rc - everything from -rc5 and upper waits for next -rc1 unless tagged urgent ? Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html