On 2/28/23 06:28, Greg KH wrote: >> But just so you know, as a maintainer, you have the option to request that >> patches to your subsystem will not be selected by AUTOSEL and run your >> own process to select, test and submit fixes to stable trees. > > Yes, and simply put, that's the answer for any subsystem or maintainer > that does not want their patches picked using the AUTOSEL tool. > > The problem that the AUTOSEL tool is solving is real, we have whole > major subsystems where no patches are ever marked as "for stable" and so > real bugfixes are never backported properly. Yeah, I agree. And I'm throwing this out here [after having time to think about it due to an internet outage], but, would Cc'ing the patch's relevant subsystems on AUTOSEL emails help? This was sort of mentioned in this email[1] from Eric, and I think it _could_ help? I don't know, just something that crossed my mind earlier. > > In an ideal world, all maintainers would properly mark their patches for > stable backporting (as documented for the past 15+ years, with a cc: > stable tag, NOT a Fixes: tag), but we do not live in that world, and > hence, the need for the AUTOSEL work. (I wish we did... Oh well.) [1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/Y%2Fzswi91axMN8OsA@sol.localdomain/ -- Slade
