On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:36:29PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:

> However, I presume maintainers don't add cc: stable lightly, even when
> the fix could benefit stable kernel users, if there's any risk of the
> backport coming back to haunt you. I believe maintainers assume some
> degree of responsibility for the backport when they add cc: stable, even
> when they don't have the means to do QA. (And with the plethora of
> longterm kernels around these days, who does?)

> But does being more liberal in adding cc: stable tags and shifting the
> responsibility for backports towards stable kernel maintainers work

I'm not saying be *more* liberal, I'm saying that's pretty much where
we're at at the minute.

> either? The bugs will anyway be reported to subsystem/driver
> maintainers, not stable maintainers.

That's not happening in my experience, people working with stable seem
to generally involve the stable people in the few cases where there's a
problem.