On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 11:18:57AM +0100, Jerome Brunet wrote: > On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 04:56 +0000, Sasha Levin wrote: > > From: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > [ Upstream commit 9042b46eda33ef5db3cdfc9e12b3c8cabb196141 ] > > > > Always check phy_write return values. Better to be safe than sorry > > > > Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi Sasha, > > I have recently received a few mails from you with [PATCH AUTOSEL], such as this > one. I'm wondering what are the criteria to select these patches? This one does > not have a "Fixes" tag and, I believe, stable was not CCed of the original > patch. Do you have another selection method ? > > I really sorry if you already got this question a thousand times. > > I have nothing against this patch making its way to a stable release BTW, it > won't do any harm. Sasha, I think by now we need a "FAQ" link somewhere to point people at that describes how these patches are being selected as it comes up every other week or so, and I imagine you are getting tired of repeating yourself :) If you want me to find some place on kernel.org to put the text, I'll be glad to do so. thanks, greg k-h