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Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is requested

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is requested
Date 2016-12-05 14:30 +0100
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On Mon 05-12-16 14:15:57, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:05:08PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > That's not a problem in that I know I like to see them to give me a
> > > "heads up" that something is coming down the pipeline soon.
> > 
> > Are you really tracking all those discussion to catch resulting patches
> > in the Linus' tree? I simply fail to see a point having N versions of
> > the patch on the stable mailing list before it gets picked up from the
> > _Linus'_ anyayw.
> > 
> > > I don't think anyone has ever complained of this before, do you?
> > 
> > This is the reason I have stopped following the stable mailing list.
> > The noise level is just too high.
> 
> I personally have mixed opinion on this. I agree that there's too much
> "noise" on the list, but at the same time I would probably be even more
> clueless about patches I receive if I didn't have this noise.

Is this because patches that you are receiving do not have the full
context?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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[RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is requested Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-12-05 08:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-05 14:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-12-05 14:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-12-05 14:20 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-12-05 14:30 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-12-05 14:40 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-05 15:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-12-05 15:20 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-05 15:30 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-12-05 15:50 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-05 15:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is  requested Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-12-05 16:00 +0100

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