[LTP] [PATCH 1/1] doc/maintainer: Add policy for new functionality

[Enji Cooper]

> On Dec 11, 2021, at 08:55, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> On 11 Dec 2021 16:19, Petr Vorel wrote:
>>>> Suggested-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
>>>> ---
>>>> doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt | 3 +++
>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>> 
>>>> diff --git a/doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt b/doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt
>>>> index c7bb47810..4e2b267ac 100644
>>>> --- a/doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt
>>>> +++ b/doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt
>>>> @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ New test should
>>>>   GPL-2.0-or-later; the licence for test (e.g. GPL-2.0) should not change
>>>>   unless test is completely rewritten
>>>> * Old copyrights should be kept unless test is completely rewritten
>>>> +* Tests for new functionality in mainline kernel should be merged after final
>>>> +  release of kernel which contains that functionality (it's not enough when the
>>>> +  feature gets into rc1, because it can be reverted in later rc if problematic).
>> 
>>> Sounds reasonable to me, but ideally this should be acked by the rest of
>>> the maintainers.
>> 
>> Sure, this can wait :).
> 
> seems fine

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