On 21/03/20 13:16, Tom Lendacky wrote: >> >> Yes, I have had to go around and clean up after maintainers who don't >> seem to realize this, but for KVM patches I have been explicitly told to >> NOT take any patch unless it has a cc: stable on it, due to issues that >> have happened in the past. >> >> So for this subsystem, what you suggested guaranteed it would NOT get >> picked up, please do not do that. > > Thanks for clarifying that, Greg. > > Then, yes, it should have the Cc: to stable that David mentioned. If it > gets applied without that, I'll follow the process to send an email to > stable to get it included in 5.5-stable. No, don't worry, I do add the stable tags myself based on the Fixes tags. Paolo
