On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 16:36 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > In this particular case, it's my patch, and I've never sent you a pull > > request. I sort of assumed that security@xxxxxxxxxx magically caused > > acknowledged fixes to end up in your tree. I'm not sure what I'm > > supposed to do here. > > > > Maybe the confusion is because Eric resent the patch? > > So I saw the patch twice in email , but neither time did I get the > feeling that I should apply it. The first time Eric responded to it, > so the maintainer clearly knew about it and was reacting to it, so I > ignored it. The second time Eric resent it as email to various people > and lists, and I didn't react to it because I expected that was again > just for discussion. > > So I'm not blaming you as much as Eric. No, it's good to blame me. I was trying to deal with it as fast as I could since I was already trying to ignore my computer before I got married last weekend and took the last week off. I realized when I got back yesterday you hadn't picked it up and it was on my list of things to try to handle today. I think both 1 and 2 are good to be applied to your tree. Although only #1 is really an absolutely critical issue. > If a maintainer expects me to > pick it up from the email (rather than his usual git pulls), I want > that maintainer to *say* so. Because otherwise, as mentioned, I expect > it to come through the maintainer tree as usual. > > Linus -- 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