[Xen-devel] Please *justify* your use of the for-4.5 tag when posting patches

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 10:48 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:

Reposting with a more eyecatching subject, since this was by far not the
only patch with this issue.

> In the future when you include a "for-4.5" tag on a patch please
> *always* state your reasoning (usually after the "---"). Don't make the
> maintainer / release manager / committer guess why you think it should
> be in 4.5. If you consider it "obviously a bug fix" then say so and then
> say something about the impact of the bug and the risk associated with
> the fix.
> 
> I'm a bit grumpy about the number of patches which don't do this, such
> patches are mostly going to the back of my queue, alongside the 4.6
> patches, since without any rationale that is effectively what I consider
> them to be despite the use of the for-4.5 tag.



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