Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The amount of -stable emails

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:27:03 +0200
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> > For context searches if some particular information regarding stable 
> > patch history is needed, we can still do lore/lei queries nicely and 
> > easily.
> > Is there any other usecase (that people are actually actively using) for 
> > it?  
> 
> In rare cases, patches are incorrectly applied.  That can't be
> verified without the actual patch.
> 
> Usually it happens with a cherry-pick with fuzz, so we might be able
> to catch suspected ones, but the inspection of the patch is still
> needed.

As you state this is rare. Who actually checks this? I don't. I pretty much
ignore any patch that I marked as stable and it was accepted into the
stable tree. If there was a merge mistake, I would never see it.

If people are checking for these, then I suggest they use some sort of
digest and look. But I really could do without the email that it was
applied cleanly.

-- Steve