From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751845AbcLENYU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2016 08:24:20 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:34652 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750998AbcLENYQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2016 08:24:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 14:24:00 +0100 From: Michal Hocko To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Greg KH , LKML , Stable tree , Andy Lutomirski , Jiri Kosina Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change the way how the stable backport is requested Message-ID: <20161205132359.GI30758@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20161205072154.8177-1-mhocko@kernel.org> <20161205125236.GA19696@kroah.com> <20161205130507.GH30758@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20161205131557.GA23899@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161205131557.GA23899@1wt.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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