On 10/06/2017 08:10 PM, 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. > Apart from the practical which has been covered, I'd be interested in hearing about the details of how this works if you can share them. Thanks, Laura