On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 08:46:33 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Maybe we should introduce the Fixes-no-stable: tag. That should get > > their attention. > > No please, Fixes shouldn't be really tight to any stable tree rules. It > is a very useful indication of which commit has introduced bug/problem > or whatever that the patch follows up to. We in Suse are using this tag > to evaluate potential fixes as the stable is not reliable. We could live > with Fixes-no-stable or whatever other name but does it really makes > sense to complicate the existing state when stable maintainers are doing > whatever they want anyway? Does a tag like that force AI from selecting > a patch? I am not really convinced. It should work if we ask stable trees maintainers not to backport such patches. Sasha, please don't backport patches which are marked Fixes-no-stable: and which lack a cc:stable tag.
