How do we track regressions affecting multiple (stable) trees?

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Hello everyone,

I wondered a few times in the last months how we could properly track
regressions for the stable series, as I'm always a bit unsure how proper
use of regzbot would look for these cases.

For issues that affect mainline usually just the commit itself is
specified with the relevant "#regzbot introduced: ..." invocation, but
how would one do this if the stable trees are also affected? Do we need
to specify "#regzbot introduced" for each backported version of the
upstream commit?!

IMO this is especially interesting because sometimes getting a patchset
to fix the older trees can take quite some time since possibly backport
dependencies have to be found or even custom patches need to be written,
as it i.e. was the case [here][0]. This led to fixes for the linux-6.1.y
branch landing a bit later which would be good to track with regzbot so
it does not fall through the cracks.

Maybe there already is a regzbot facility to do this that I have just
missed, but I thought if there is people on the lists will know :)

Cheers,
Chris

P.S.: I hope everybody had a great time at the conferences! I hope to
also make it next year ..

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/66bcb6f68172f_adbf529471@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.notmuch/

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