On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 06:21:51PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 09:50:00AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > > I suspect that either b4 or get_maintainer could see the Fixes tag and > > then suggest to Cc stable for me. > > > Should get_maintainer.pl make such recommendations? > > People use the Fixes tag all the time for bugs that never made it into a > release... I agree that it probably shouldn't. Sometimes the bug was introduced by a commit that didn't have a Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx, but it gets automatically pulled into a LTS kernel due to dependency reasons, or otherwise gets auto-selected into an LTS kernel. So I try to add Fixes tags even for bugs that never make it into the stable kernel --- but that doesn't mean that it should automatically get a cc stable tag. (Of course, it might be that the AUTOSEL process will automatically pull in such commit, and then pull in something probably should not been pulled into a stable tree, but this is why XFS has stable backports maintainers --- because they don't trust the LTS automation. For ext4, we probably see one of those sorts of the auto-backports caused a regression maybe once a year? But that's a different debate.) - Ted
