David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> writes: > 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.
Yeah, you are right there. I did actually ponder which I tree should commit it back in July but due to various reasons decided differently. -- Kalle Valo
