From: Kalle Valo <kv...@codeaurora.org> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:31:31 +0300
> AFAICS the bug was introduced by 9df86e2e702c6 back in 2010. If the bug > has been there for 7 years so waiting for a few more weeks should not > hurt. As a maintainer you have a right to handle bug fixing in that way, but certainly that is not how I would handle this. It's easy to validate this fix, it's extremely unlikely to cause a regression, and fixes a problem someone actually was able to trigger. Deferring to -next only has the side effect of making people wait longer for the fix.
