Re: Userspace regression in LTS and stable kernels

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:18:30AM -0500, Samuel Dionne-Riel wrote:
> I'm sorry to interject here, but the issue was reported on the
> Kernel.org Bugzilla on February 2nd
>
> - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202497
>
> In the interest of better communication, if the need arises again, how
> should bugs in the RC kernels be reported so they (1) are spotted by
> the right maintainers and (2) not backported even though they were
> reported as causing breaking changes?

Sadly our bugzilla is rarely used, even though the information in that
particular bug report is perfect.

Maybe pinging LKML and stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx would be enough, specially
if you know that it's a stable commit that caused the regression.

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Thanks,
Sasha