From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752875AbZH0SWj (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:22:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752456AbZH0SWi (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:22:38 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com ([209.85.223.204]:51360 "EHLO mail-iw0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751951AbZH0SWh (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:22:37 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=rxxl8yJxyaWHQnG9h64SoFh7CBTxqTMgcsvv96O7cumVC8aIQXAYtJhpPnWvmGIVlg 0s/RVwTqhBjMQHZbNa0GYJMyaWRVxKf9jRTYJ2Md/UiU9v90BZGqZSPMQ47T2BWXGIJa XeWWLid4561DHHug7PVmy8pChOnRit25vlwzM= MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:22:19 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890908271122l6b08aaa5lc66de78301c7c88d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Would it help to encourage users to read/test stable-review patches To: stable-review@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Chris Wright Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just thinking out loud here. We get development review eyes on stable patches during submission into a subsystem, and perhaps 1-2 user tests then. Typically patches are pretty easy to review for stable submission but I'm wondering about cases where things are not so clear and perhaps we want better testing and are less willing to take a fix into stable than on latest rc. Also what if a user just wants to test an entire series queues up for stable-review, is there a single all-in-one file user can just patch -p1 to help test prior to getting the next stable release made? Do we want more user exposure to stable-review mailing list or is just a few developer eyes enough? Luis