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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:54:35 +0000
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 09:06:37AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> So by no means the MM backports were reviewed by me. And considering how hard
> it is to get any review for MM patches in general I strongly suspect that
> others didn't review either.
> 
> In general I am quite skeptical about the automagic backports
> selections, to be honest. MM patches should be reasonably good at
> selecting stable backports and adding more patches on top just risks
> regressions. 

BTW other than suggesting we needing *actual review* of the MM patches, are
there known unit tests which could be run as well? Thinking long term.

  Luis