On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 07:41:31PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > > Well, probably more common is that prerequisites are in the same patchset, and > the prerequisites are tagged for stable too. Whereas AUTOSEL often just picks > patch X of N. Also, developers and maintainers who tag patches for stable are > probably more likely to help with the stable process in general and make sure > patches are backported correctly... > > Anyway, the point is, AUTOSEL needs to be fixed to stop inappropriately > cherry-picking patch X of N so often. > ... and AUTOSEL strikes again, with the 6.1 and 6.2 kernels currently crashing whenever a block device is removed, due to patches 1 and 3 of a 3-patch series being AUTOSEL'ed (on the same day I started this discussion, no less): https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/CAOCAAm4reGhz400DSVrh0BetYD3Ljr2CZen7_3D4gXYYdB4SKQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u Oh sorry, ignore this, it's just an anecdotal example. - Eric
