On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 04:34:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >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. Let me write something up and run it by Julia as well. -- Thanks, Sasha