On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 05:00:05PM +0100, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
On středa 21. února 2024 15:53:11 CET Greg KH wrote:
Given the huge patch volume that the stable tree manages (30-40 changes accepted a day, 7 days a week), any one kernel subsystem that wishes to do something different only slows down everyone else.
Lower down the volume then? Raise the bar for what gets backported? Stable kernel releases got unnecessarily big [1] (Jiří is in Cc). Those 40 changes a day cannot get a proper review. Each stable release tries to mimic -rc except -rc is in consistent state while "stable" is just a bunch of changes picked here and there.
If you can point out any specific commits that we should not be taking, please let us know.
Personally I think we are not taking enough, and are still missing real fixes. Overall, this is only a very small % of what goes into Linus's tree every day, so by that measure alone, we know we are missing things.
thanks,
greg k-h