On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Sasha Levin wrote:
So if a user is operating a nuclear power plant, and has 2 leds: green one that says "All OK!" and a red one saying "NUCLEAR MELTDOWN!", and once in a blue moon a race condition is causing the red one to go on and cause panic in the little province he lives in, we should tell that user to fuck off?
LEDs may not be critical for you, but they can be critical for someone else. Think of all the different users we have and the wildly different ways they use the kernel.
I am pretty sure that for almost every fix there is a person on a planet that'd rate it "critical". We can't really use this as an argument for inclusion of code into -stable, as that'd mean that -stable and Linus' tree would have to be basically the same.