[PATCH 0/1] On DRM -> stable process

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Nov 8 08:49:20 UTC 2024


On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 11:41:18AM +0300, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
> On Tue, 05. Nov 07:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 05:55:28PM +0300, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
> > > It is just strange that the (exact same) change made by the commits is
> > > duplicated by backporting tools. As it is not the first case where DRM
> > > patches are involved per Greg's statement [1], I wonder if something can be
> > > done on stable-team's side to avoid such odd behavior in future.
> > 
> > No, all of this mess needs to be fixed up on the drm developer's side,
> > they are the ones doing this type of crazy "let's commit the same patch
> > to multiple branches and then reference a commit that will show up at an
> > unknown time in the future and hope for the best!" workflow.
> > 
> > I'm amazed it works at all, they get to keep fixing up this mess as this
> > is entirely self-inflicted.
> 
> Thanks for reply, I get your remark. DRM people are mostly CC'ed here,
> hopefully it won't be that difficult to tune their established workflow to
> make the stable process easier and more straightforward.
> 
> As of now, would you mind to take the revert for 6.1? It's [PATCH 1/1] in
> this thread. No point to keep it there, and the duplicated commits were
> already reverted from the fresher stable kernels.
> 

I don't see it in my review queue anymore, can you please resend it?

thanks,

greg k-h


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