Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] drm/mgag200: Remove declaration of mgag200_mmap() from header" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 5.8-stable tree?

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:54 PM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Am 07.08.20 um 15:30 schrieb gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 5.8-stable tree.
> >
> > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
> >
> > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
> > <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
> > applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
> > seen again.
>
> Sorry for the noise. There's no reason this should go into stable.

We have a little script in our maintainer toolbox for bugfixes, which
generates the Fixes: line, adds everyone from the original commit to
the cc: list and also adds Cc: stable if that sha1 the patch fixes is
in a release already.

I guess we trained people a bit too much on using Fixes: tags like
that with the tooling, since they often do that for checkpatch stuff
and spelling fixes like this here too. I think the autoselect bot also
loves Fixes: tags a bit too much for its own good.

Not sure what to do, since telling people to "please sprinkle less
Fixes: tags" doesn't sound great either. I also don't want to tell
people to use the maintainer toolbox less, the autogenerated cc: list
is generally the right thing to do. Maybe best if the stable team
catches the obvious ones before adding them to the stable queue, if
you're ok with that Greg?

Also adding dri-devel here in case this becomes a bigger discussion.

Cheers, Daniel

>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> >
> > From 1d8d42ba365101fa68d210c0e2ed2bc9582fda6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 15:57:50 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] drm/mgag200: Remove declaration of mgag200_mmap() from header
> >  file
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> >
> > Commit 94668ac796a5 ("drm/mgag200: Convert mgag200 driver to VRAM MM")
> > removed the implementation of mgag200_mmap(). Also remove the declaration.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 94668ac796a5 ("drm/mgag200: Convert mgag200 driver to VRAM MM")
> > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Armijn Hemel <armijn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.3+
> > Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200605135803.19811-2-tzimmermann@xxxxxxx
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.h
> > index 47df62b1ad29..92b6679029fe 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.h
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.h
> > @@ -198,6 +198,5 @@ void mgag200_i2c_destroy(struct mga_i2c_chan *i2c);
> >
> >  int mgag200_mm_init(struct mga_device *mdev);
> >  void mgag200_mm_fini(struct mga_device *mdev);
> > -int mgag200_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
> >
> >  #endif                               /* __MGAG200_DRV_H__ */
> >
>
> --
> Thomas Zimmermann
> Graphics Driver Developer
> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
> Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
> (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
> Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
>


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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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