On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > 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. FWIW, I brought this up already at KS 2016, see Jon's coverage here: https://lwn.net/Articles/705220/ My primary motivation to bring that up back then was to try to reduce the number of patches that are taken into -stable while there is no good justification for that (by requiring each and every of those having Fixes: present as a requirement), but it didn't really lead anywhere. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
