On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 03:07:04PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
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.
Yes, clearly a problem with AUTOSEL and not with how sad the testing
story is for stable releases.
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Thanks,
Sasha
