On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:01:04AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Because cc: stable came first, and for some reason people think that it > > is all that is necessary to get patches committed to the stable tree, > > despite it never being documented or that way. I have to correct > > someone about this about 2x a month on the stable@vger list. > > For a developer, it's much easier to not care about "Cc: stable" > at all, because as soon as you add a "Cc: stable" to a patch, or CC > stable, someone will compain ;-) Much easier to just add a Fixes: tag, > and know it will be backported to trees that have the "buggy" commit. What sort of complaints have you gotten? I add "cc: stable" for the ext4 tree, and I can't say I've gotten any complaints. - Ted