On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 06:41:49PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > (Even just stable-kernel-rules.rst is totally incorrect these days.) > > I do not understand this, what is not correct? > > It's how to get patches merged into stable kernels, we go > above-and-beyond that for those developers and maintainers that do NOT > follow those rules. If everyone followed them, we wouldn't be having > this discussion at all :) The entire list of rules for what patches are accepted into stable. This is a longstanding issue that has been reiterated many times in the past, see https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20220924182124.GA19210@xxxxxxxxxx for example. The fact is, many people *do* follow the rules exactly by *not* tagging commits for stable when they don't meet the documented eligibility criteria. But then the stable maintainers backport the commits anyway, as the real eligibility criteria are *much* more relaxed than what is documented. - Eric
