On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:26:38PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 03:13:08PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 05:12:17PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > Hi stable team - please don't take patches for fs/bcachefs/ except from > > > myself; I'll be doing backports and sending pull requests after stuff > > > has been tested by my CI. > > > > Now done: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/commit/?id=9bf1f8f1ca9ae53cf3bc8781e4efdb6ebaee70db > > > > We will ignore it for any "Fixes:" tags, or AUTOSEL, but if you > > explicitly add a "cc: stable@" in the signed-off-by area, we will pick > > that up. > > Would it work for your process to ignore cc: stable@ as well? Nope! That's explicit, you add it for when you want us to pick up a change when it hits Linus's tree. If you don't want that to happen, then don't add it. > I want a tag that I can have tooling grep for later that means "this > patch should be backported later, after seeing sufficient testing", and > cc: stable@ has that meaning in current usage. Just use a "Fixes:" tag then, that's what networking did for years before they gave up and now use cc: stable. thanks, greg k-h
