On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 07:50:11PM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > ... > > > e70af8d040d2 has a Fixes tag. Not sure why it's not automatically > > backported. > > > > Because "Fixes:" is not the flag that we are sure to trigger off of. > > Please read: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > for how to do this properly. > > Thanks, I just read this again to refresh my memory :-) > I remember Sasha has an AI algorithm to pick up patches into the stable > tree and a "Fixes" tag should be a strong indicator. Yes, we have to rely on "hints" like that due to maintainers not wanting to put any cc: stable tags for many subsystems so we have to dig them out somehow. > If I add the cc: stable line in a patch and use git-send-email to post > the patch, git-send-email also posts the patch to the stable list -- is > this acceptable? Totally acceptable. > Sometimes a patch may have to undergo multiple > revisions, meaning all the discussion emails go to the stable list > unnecessarily, and I guess this is not good? It's not a problem at all, happens all the time and in fact I like it as it gives us a heads-up that a patch is going to be eventually merged for us to handle. > It looks like there is no git-send-email option to exclude an email. No need to, don't worry about that at all. thanks, greg k-h
