From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E56D2D for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 21:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (bedivere.hansenpartnership.com [66.63.167.143]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1D05F8 for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1525469881.4114.5.camel@HansenPartnership.com> From: James Bottomley To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , Greg KH Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 14:38:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20180504211317.GK29205@thunk.org> References: <20180503000620.GA29205@thunk.org> <20180503144612.GJ18390@sasha-vm> <20180503165446.GB30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20180503173422.GR18390@sasha-vm> <20180503182039.GC30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <8669.1525427874@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <87fu377gbu.fsf@intel.com> <20180504130932.GI29205@thunk.org> <20180504174055.GF4649@kroah.com> <20180504211317.GK29205@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , "w@1wt.eu" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 17:13 -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > If it's not necessary, fine.  But we should still delete what is > currently documented in stable_kernel_rules and was introduced in > 8e9b9362266d, because it doesn't describe current practice. It definitely doesn't seem to describe current practice. It looks like it got applied because the commit description bears a somewhat strange relation to the actual text that was added: The commit talks about the original script that used to forward to stable (although it got me and hpa confused) which seems to refer to a tiny deletion and the rest is adding an Ingo one off proposal for dependencies. For the record: Greg runs his own script now and I'm not involved. Current process (at least from the SCSI centric view) is that if we screw up and forward a commit with missing dependencies to stable via a cc: tag, it won't apply and Greg tells us to fix it, which we do. That seems to be an adequately functional process for the odd times we run into this. James