On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:18:15AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > FYI: you shouldn't cc stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx directly on your patches, > or add the cc: line. Only patches that are already in Linus' tree > should be sent there. Not true at all, please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html for how to do this properly. Please do not spread incorrect information. And Jason did this properly, he put cc: stable@ in the s-o-b area and all is good, I will pick up this patch once it hits Linus's tree. And there is no problem actually sending the patch to stable@vger while under development like this, as it gives me a heads-up that something is coming, and is trivial to filter out. If you really want to be nice, you can just do: cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx which goes to /dev/null on kernel.org, so no email will be sent to any list, but my scripts still pick it up. But no real need to do that, it's fine. > Also, the fixes tags are really quite sufficient. No it is not, I have had to dig out patches more and more because people do NOT put the cc: stable and only put Fixes:, which is not a good thing as I then have to "guess" what the maintainer/developer ment. Be explicit if you know it, cc: stable please. > In fact, it is > actually rather difficult these days to prevent something from being > taken into -stable if the bots notice that it applies cleanly. Those "bots" are still driven by a lot of human work, please make it easy on us whenever possible. thanks, greg k-h