Re: [PATCH] Documentation: stable: Add rule on what kind of patches are accepted

[Tudor Ambarus]

Hi,

On 22.12.2022 14:56, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 12/22/22 16:16, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> > The list of rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones
> > are not into the “-stable” tree, did not mention anything about new
> > features and let the reader use its own judgement. One may be under the
> > impression that new features are not accepted at all, but that's not true:
> > new features are not accepted unless they fix a reported problem.
> > Update documentation with missing rule.
>
> Are there any other examples of problems that can "only" be solved by
> introducing new features? Or new huge features that are virtually
> harder to backport?

Here's an example:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20221222083545.1972489-1-tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxx/