From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932515Ab1JZIOT (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:14:19 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:51184 "HELO mailout-de.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932427Ab1JZIOR (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:14:17 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18WGQAqYr4WXaTYpB8dQ5rxZD/nGoTj3oBQw5pRNx SLfRVANuhw+bK8 Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.8 From: Mike Galbraith To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Greg KH , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, lwn@lwn.net In-Reply-To: <14295.1319532063@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20111025051928.GA7997@kroah.com> <4EA64BDC.8050709@xenotime.net> <20111025070240.GB9415@suse.de> <14295.1319532063@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:14:10 +0200 Message-ID: <1319616850.4829.28.camel@marge.simson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 04:41 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:02:40 +0200, Greg KH said: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:40:44PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On 10/24/11 22:19, Greg KH wrote: > > > > All users of the 3.0 kernel series must upgrade. > > > I noticed that "must" word in 3.0.7 also. Please explain. > > Nothing new, I've been saying that for years. > > I think Randy means that out of the 29 commits for .7->.8, there's only one > (Hugh Dicken's mremap fix) and *maybe* Peter Zijlstra's cputimer fix, which > even *possibly* rise to the "all users" level, as everything else is against > XFS or CIFS or ARM or something else that's not an across-the-board issue. > > And the changelog for the mremap commit says that "but this lucky report > hints", which sort of implies it's a very hard-to-hit bug that nobody even knew > was there. > > So it's not obvious from just the shortlog that it's a "MUST upgrade" category. Seems like perfectly fine boilerplate to me. If I want the warmest fuzzy I can get, I must upgrade. Peter's patch fixed a box killer that I don't care to hit (dead bugs being kinda boring), so I must upgrade. -Mike