On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:05:16PM -0500, Slade Watkins wrote: > 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. > AFAICT, that's already being done now, which is good. What I was talking about is that the subsystem lists aren't included on the *other* stable emails. Most importantly, the "FAILED: patch failed to apply to stable tree" emails. - Eric
