23 Mar
2020
23 Mar
'20
6:48 a.m.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 08:51:34PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped that patch (others complained about it for other reasons) and will push out a -rc2 with that fix.
I did wonder why the offending patch was included, but then I figured that I lost the "we apply too many patches to stable releases" battle, and I didn't want to re-litigate it.
I usually much rather take prerequisite patches rather than do backports, which is why that patch was selected.
Unfortunately, that results in less useful -stable.
Not at all, it makes for a _MORE_ useful stable, as we want to mirror what is in Linus's tree whenever possible.
Come on now, we've been doing this for 17+ years now, it's not new.
greg k-h