From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 23:04:12 +0100
> I tend to be more paranoid after listening to recent discussions about > this. At LPC and online, there have been comments that patches to > stable are more likely to break something than patches going via the > normal merge window. Normal patches get a lot more testing, are in -rc > kernels for 6 or more weeks, etc, where as stable patches go live > after a week or less of testing. Well, with networking it's a little bit different. I do let patches "cook" in my stable queue before sending them off. Sometimes for a couple weeks. And yes, very often, follow-on fixups for a change show up during that time. This is primarily why I handle -stable submission in this way, and therefore I completely agree with your concerns.
