Michal Kubeček: Backporting horror stories
Channel: SUSE Labs
Date: 2014-11-03

Many of our bugfixes are backports of mainline commits from later versions. Some are simple, some more complicated, but even the most simple and seemingly innocent ones may introduce a regression and sometimes even if the original commit didn't. The plan is to focus on the cases when an easy and clean cherry-pick of a correct commit causes trouble when added to SLE kernel and show examples of what can (and what actually did) go wrong.

-- This talk was presented at SUSE Labs Conference 2014 in České Budějovice.