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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

The two [1] recently affecting many people in mainline and various stable/longterm series should soon be a thing of the past:

Linus merged fixes into 6.12-rc4[2] and Greg queued them for the next stable releases[3].

Wondering what we should learn from this wrt to handling such regressions quickly and ideally even preventing them from hitting stable.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/4e1977ca-6166-4891-965e-34a6f319035f@leemhuis.info/

[2] https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/d7f513ae7b108f953cceec8bc96d2e5e83c3ccd0

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024102100-spongy-etching-0695@gregkh/

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ljs

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@kernellogger good for me I'm running rc4 on my host machine!
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oleksandr@natalenko.name

Oleksandr Natalenko, MSE verified

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@ljs @kernellogger We should of course learn nothing because "stable" backports work as intended, and there's no need to change anything. Also, this is a one-off event, and this never happened in the past and will never happen again.

</sarcasm>

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oleksandr@natalenko.name

Oleksandr Natalenko, MSE verified

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@ljs @kernellogger Did you know -rc kernels were more stable than "stable" kernels?

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