On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 03:10:06AM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > >Hi Greg, > > > >On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > >I'm a little confused as to why this is being backported, given it > >wasn't Cc'd stable or marked as a fix. > > > >The lm_alias() helper was only introduced in v4.10, and I don't recall > >seeing that backported. > > > >What's going on here? > > Mark, > > We are experimenting with using neural network to aid with patch > selection for stable kernel trees. There are quite a few commits that > were not marked for stable, but are stable material, and we're trying > to get them into their appropriate kernel trees. I see. Perhaps it would make sense to mark these patches as having been selected automatically? That way, reviewers would be able to better judge whether a backport makes sense, as it wouldn't be implied that someone has encountered a problem on a stable kernel, requiring the backport. Maybe that was on the cover letter -- I only recieved this patch in isolation. Thanks, Mark.