[Cc: Sasha, Greg] On Fri, 2024-03-29 at 15:12 -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > I'd take it one step further and remove both 'Fixes' tags. A 'Fixes' > tag implies a flaw in the functionality of the code, this is just a > function rename. Totally agree. > Another important thing to keep in mind about 'Fixes' tags, unless > you've told the stable kernel folks to only take patches that you've > explicitly marked for stable, they are likely going to attempt to > backport anything with a 'Fixes' tag. How do we go about doing that? Do we just send an email to stable? Is it disabled for security? I thought new functionality won't be backported. Hopefully the changes for making IMA & EVM full fledged LSMs won't be automatically backported to stable. thanks, Mimi
