On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 07:48:34AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> If you know you want a patch in the stable tree, add cc: stable.
>
> Because not all maintainers remember to do so, we do dig through all
> patches with just the fixes: tag, and try to backport them if needed,
> but it does not always happen, and there can be long lags as well.
>
> So again, if you know you want it in a stable kernel, add the cc:
> stable.
Thanks for clarifying. I already did so - I figured having cc:stable
won't hurt anyway. Besides, it is an explicit statement that "that patch
is stable material" because Fixes: doesn't always necessarily mean,
stable material.
Thx.
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