Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) You'd go completely crazy
if you didn't automate 99% of all the stable work.
if you didn't automate 99% of all the stable work.
So can you trust the "Cc: stable" as being perfect? If it was, we'd never add driver ID's etc to stable - they're clearly not "critical".
"critical".
Yet it feels like that's sometimes those driver things are the _bulk_ of it, and it is usually fairly safe (not quite as obviously safe as you'd think, because a driver ID addition has occasionally meant not just "now it's supported", but instead "now the generic driver doesn't trigger for it any more", so it can actually break things).
if you didn't automate 99% of all the stable work.
So can you trust the "Cc: stable" as being perfect? If it was, we'd never add driver ID's etc to stable - they're clearly not "critical".
"critical".
Yet it feels like that's sometimes those driver things are the _bulk_ of it, and it is usually fairly safe (not quite as obviously safe as you'd think, because a driver ID addition has occasionally meant not just "now it's supported", but instead "now the generic driver doesn't trigger for it any more", so it can actually break things).