On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 04:11:00PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > Hi, > > This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman. You have sent him > a patch that has triggered this response. He used to manually respond > to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept > writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was > created. Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem > in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux > kernel tree. > > You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s) > as indicated below: > > > - You have marked a patch with a "Fixes:" tag for a commit that is in an > older released kernel, yet you do not have a cc: stable line in the > signed-off-by area at all, which means that the patch will not be > applied to any older kernel releases. To properly fix this, please > follow the documented rules in the > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst file for how to resolve > this. > > If you wish to discuss this problem further, or you have questions about > how to resolve this issue, please feel free to respond to this email and > Greg will reply once he has dug out from the pending patches received > from other developers. Like Johan said, this doesn't really belong in stable because it doesn't affect users. It's mostly about correctness and static analysis. The linux-media CI system has also started complaining if we don't add a stable tag and it suggests that the correct thing is to add: Cc: <stable+noautosel@xxxxxxxxxx> # reason goes here, and must be present Do we really have to do that? Applying it to stable doesn't cause a problem, it's just not necessary. regards, dan carpenter
