Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 01:36:43PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> On 06/18/2018 10:13 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> > 4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> So I was wondering, why backport such a considerable number of >> *selftests* to stable, given the stable policy? Surely selftests don't >> affect the kernel itself breaking for users? > > These came in as part of Sasha's "backport fixes" tool. It can't hurt > to add selftest fixes/updates to stable kernels, as for some people, > they only run the selftests for the specific kernel they are building. > While others run selftests for the latest kernel on older kernels, both > of which are valid ways of testing. I don't have a problem with these sort of patches being backported, but it seems like Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.txt could use an update? I honestly don't know what the rules are anymore. cheers
