>> should be enough for it to go into stable from 5.2 and onwards. > OK - I wasn't certain whether you wanted the Fixes or stable tag dropped. >>> (Greg didn't seem to object to the Fixes: as such, just to the >>> incorrect version prereq) >> I think it's really confusing... A patch should only have a Fixes tag if >> it's fixing a specific bug in that patch. Either it is, in which case >> you would not need Cc stable at all since it's only in 6.5-rc, or it > > It is fixing a bug in b6f3f28f60. I should have checked whether the > patch series had already gone to release, not just -rc, instead of > just adding the stable tag out of caution. But this is the confusion - if it's fixing a bug in b6f3f28f60, then why is it marked as needing to get backported much further back, predating that commit? -- Jens Axboe
