On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 05:00:05PM +0100, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote: > On středa 21. února 2024 15:53:11 CET Greg KH wrote: > > Given the huge patch volume that the stable tree manages (30-40 changes > > accepted a day, 7 days a week), any one kernel subsystem that wishes to > > do something different only slows down everyone else. > > Lower down the volume then? Raise the bar for what gets backported? > Stable kernel releases got unnecessarily big [1] (Jiří is in Cc). > Those 40 changes a day cannot get a proper review. Each stable release > tries to mimic -rc except -rc is in consistent state while "stable" is > just a bunch of changes picked here and there. If you can point out any specific commits that we should not be taking, please let us know. Personally I think we are not taking enough, and are still missing real fixes. Overall, this is only a very small % of what goes into Linus's tree every day, so by that measure alone, we know we are missing things. thanks, greg k-h
