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I don't think that's true at all. I think that is the main issue here. Having talked to enough people in the server/enterprise space there are a lot of different ideas about what should be backported into the various kernel forks out there. Just looking at the patch meta data there is a spectrum of: No-Fixes -> Fixes -> Fixes&Stable As I maintainer I don't really have a stake in backporter's policies. I feel like the best I can do is try hard to mark things with Fixes tags and provide quality commit messages. I know the various forks will make decisions based on that. IMHO the cc stable is a nice way to provide an additional opinion that the patch was thought to be critical when it was merged. People running forks should really examine those patches closely. Jason