On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:35:32 +0100 Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I thought that Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx controlled whether the patch > > is to be taken to the stable kernel and Fixes: was more of an > > informational tag. At least that's what this seems to say: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#reviewer-s-statement-of-oversight > > These days patches that just have a Fixes tag (and no Cc: stable) will > be auto-picked in many (most?) cases (by empirical observation). > > I think there were also tree-specific variances of this policy, but am > not sure anymore. What is the latest policy? The -stable maintainers have been asked not to do that for MM patches - to only take those which the developers (usually I) have explicitly tagged for backporting. I don't know how rigorously this is being followed. Probably OK for patches to mm/* but if it's drivers/base/node.c then heaven knows.
