14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
10:50 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:37:18PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
The autoselection process works good enough for everything outside of netdev community.
That's very far from true. I have seen and heard many complaints about AUTOSEL and inflation of stable trees in general, both in private and in public lists. It was also discussed on Kernel Summit few times - with little success.
Just for fun, I suggest everyone to read first section of Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst and compare with today's reality. Of course, rules can change over time but keeping that document in kernel tree as a memento is rather sad - I went through the rules now and there are only three which are not broken on a regular basis these days.
Michal Kubecek