On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 04:47:46PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 02:00:53PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote: > >> In this case, for example, this patch had a "review cycle" of 18 days >> where 4 different emails regarding this patch were sent out as it was >> making it's way through review and queues, so we already try to be >> as "loud" as we can with it. > >As someone on the reviewing side what I'm seeing is a bunch of stable >maintainers sending fairly large patch serieses that look like normal >stable review things. That's not very loud. I usually don't spend that >much time on stable reviews as up until this started happening anything >that went in was either something I'd pushed in directly or something >where I had spent more time on already after someone had sent a "hey, we >should backport this" mail. Mails that look like the ones that have >been sent are just confirming prior review. Okay, so something like [REVIEW automatic-patch-selection for 4.X] is sort of what you're suggesting? -- Thanks, Sasha