Linux Virtualization - Oct 2013 - [PATCH net V2 1/2] virtio-net: don't respond to cpu hotplug notifier if we're not ready

From: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:30:15 +1030
> Asking people to express 'CC: stable' in words is error-prone; if
Dave
> wants to filter it, he's quite capable.
Filtering it one time is one thing.

Potentially acting on that filter 100 or so times a day...

That's completely another.

David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> writes:
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:30:15 +1030
>
>> Asking people to express 'CC: stable' in words is error-prone;
if Dave
>> wants to filter it, he's quite capable.
>
> Filtering it one time is one thing.
>
> Potentially acting on that filter 100 or so times a day...
>
> That's completely another.
I don't see the difference between reacting to:
> The patch were need for 3.10 and above.
And:

CC: stable at kernel.org # 3.10+

Except the latter is the standard form which everyone else uses.

Do you want awk script to turn the latter into the former?  Would that
really help?

Confused,
Rusty.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:47:14 +1030
> Do you want awk script to turn the latter into the former?  Would that
> really help?
Rusty in the several years I've been operating this way, you're
the first person who seems to mind it.

To be honest I sometimes just silently deal with the stable CC:,
but it's much easier if things operate as they do now, and the
burdon is on the submitter instead of me.