On 2/21/24 18:57, Greg KH wrote: > 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. What % of what goes into Linus's tree do you think fits within the rules stated in Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst ? I don't know but "very small" would be my guess, so we should be fine as it is? Or are the rules actually still being observed? I doubt e.g. many of the AUTOSEL backports fit them? Should we rename the file to stable-rules-nonsense.rst? > thanks, > > greg k-h
