On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 03:48:52PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:40:32PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > - I will wait for a -rc to come out with the patch in it before putting > > it into a stable release, unless: > > Question: what's the exact reasoning of that delay? To get more people > who install -rc kernels to smoke-test patches tagged for stable. Yes. > What happens if the bug gets detected *after* you've taken the patch? We > probably end up in the same situation. Yes we will, but this does give us a bit more testing, right? That's the point of the delay. thanks, greg k-h -- 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