On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 09:05:20AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Greg, > > A question has come up on the linux-wireless ML. If a patch has a "Fixes" > line, is that sufficient to get it flagged as a patch in Stable, or is a > "Cc: Stable" line also needed? Someone actually asked this question at the Maintainer's Summit, actually. The answer was that the Fixes line is not sufficient for Greg's scripts; you have to have the "Cc: stable" line as well. Greg tried using the Fixes line as a trigger, but there were too many cases where this pulled in commits that weren't really suitable for the Stable kernels. Sasha's machine-learning lash up will use the Fixes line as a signal, but if you want to explicitly request that the patch should be cherry-picked into Stable, you should have the "Cc: stable" line. (Also mentioned that at the Maintainer's Summit was that we probably do need to take a look at the Stable documentation and see how it needs to be updated to reflect how things are currently behind handled. :-) Cheers, - Ted
