On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 17.04.24 15:38, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:21:12PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> On 17.04.24 14:52, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 09:48:18AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >>>> Could you please create the email alias > >>>> do-not-apply-to-stable@xxxxxxxxxx which redirects all mail to /dev/null, > >>>> just like stable@xxxxxxxxxx does? > >>>> > >>>> To quote: > >>>> > >>>>> How about: > >>>>> cc: <do-not-apply-to-stable@xxxxxxxxxx> # Reason goes here, and must be present > >>>>> > >>>>> and we can make that address be routed to /dev/null just like > >>>>> <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> is? > >> > >> FWIW, we could go back to what I initially proposed: use the existing > >> stable tag with a pre-defined comment to mark patches that AUTOSEL et. > >> al. should not pick up: > >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/c0a08b160b286e8c98549eedb37404c6e784cf8a.1712812895.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > If you can pick a better string, possibly, yes. > > What did you think of Konstantin's > > Cc: stable+noautosel@xxxxxxxxxx # Reason > > That looked like a good solution -- and I wondered why I did not come up > with that idea myself. Sure, "autosel" would also imply/mean "the > scripts/tools that look out for Fixes: tags", but does that matter? We can live with this, sure. That way no need to change anything on any kernel.org backend. thanks, greg k-h
