On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 10:37:12AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > Also, do we have many changes that go to stable without maintainers 
> > actually adding cc: stable annotation in mainline?

> I have a feeling (but it's not backed up by any proper statistics) that we 
> do have quite a high number of such patches.

> Yes, sure, the maintainer is later CCed on the patch in the -stable queue 
> review patchbomb, but that's unfortunately in practice not the same thing 
> as if he actually actively considered the patch for inclusion himself.

I'd expect to be copied in on any requests to add stable patches if
they're not coming from a commit I made, not just on the patchbomb.  I
do agree that the patchbombs are sufficiently noisy to not be useful.