From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA0FA4C62A for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1721066835; cv=none; b=D/Fh0K42PA2EcPFizbF+c3HR7JFq1hH1wk/wV6owYBZv9uWnfXnEs05agYmXvWpBlQeyzVFEJ9n0DzWzOdyXvPNI8r7s0mHGKIlLIEQuKwUOWJqEZezVso8hDtKgiPYNLEQFd5jBZJk1n4oEtAe48tGQsYWjill2JgIRm5uHlLw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1721066835; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Su0CYDyT+gZwd/xZtONja0Q/4fOifYWBwe6ALW7rCXk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=ioi9QeGVOo6mW5+ZzSozKd4fn+6KfAwX4HFAUb1l2SEMQKB+/Hsm5yM4KvzL0I8qAfVFMOIvbJM4HWkx41NpdvH8TsH4Iu1jn9v/LGjM+FdWJbAIXIgNcR+/X6LG2ym72IxWs3mZHjAvzcNcxf/nkzceRhARZmTKu8DEzfffYlY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=HvuUNYyj; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="HvuUNYyj" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EFD40C32782; Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:07:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1721066835; bh=Su0CYDyT+gZwd/xZtONja0Q/4fOifYWBwe6ALW7rCXk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=HvuUNYyjQ9PvIrJgc+dhI+wnw61oKt2OLOKqIF0McpYRB/dhhzvYPn7QOtWaXt8Pd wKhkYgvjQuF6/VnxmNL4RVkLo4OkB8fyIYDW5qQjmi3M+mDyBQS1Wbwu+2axDIHfyJ ax13HY2Hz5KdoOMEExBMeHBVC4BQh6FdQoDNKCkDj7hEsT4/43YwmXgZMbTcz4TmjR dDSZwQWUVdLzbrIexh1CrXTd7LCvOnIHgyKajoEUw9wqllEnkHFm6CcKS6SCTHH3GJ 0lPhaPP3QyDHE3ytaF9tC6wR4w8wdgWQn7njFw8akbMuujtQuYM/1eZyBk+C7nafL3 aXgPvbHsJl7Tg== Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:07:10 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Sasha Levin , James Bottomley , ksummit@lists.linux.dev, Greg KH Subject: Re: Proposal: Enhancing Commit Tagging for Stable Kernel Branches Message-ID: <9f81247e-dfd4-4f47-a0fb-c8c1ccca3768@sirena.org.uk> References: <915ef4884d0cd347a1e0c87584346c764f7a11cf.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20240715180000.GC70013@mit.edu> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QD2Xc8f9s7Wm99ZT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240715180000.GC70013@mit.edu> X-Cookie: You'll be sorry... --QD2Xc8f9s7Wm99ZT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 02:00:00PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > That being said, maybe one path forward is that the stable team > *should* be asking the subsystem maintainers about. "Hey, the > following commits appear to be backported, but you didn't add a cc: > stable. We plan to backport them unless you complain." This has the > benefit of giving feedback to the subsystem maintainers that they they > missed tagging some number of commits, which might remind them to do > better, or make them decide that they want to do something more > explicit, such as have their own stable backports initiative ala XFS. That's pretty much exactly what AUTOSEL already does. --QD2Xc8f9s7Wm99ZT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAmaVZU4ACgkQJNaLcl1U h9APJwf/U73xHlUUuCCmUeRm+X/byzvL6BbcEGpU6WcHR0kno4U7Uci4SfcnkDTf EBDb7EK2HnjDYh+4RFuaSpLJIVow07OS9V1yJ9y1gphTAJZ/n28A2/dJ1qqSQreN l0595QG1+1qt6ZYn1n+fnxwkMf4Y88CMQ9NevtA1ngDPieQSH7iAQ7Z1fuEt2qXm 9WYWCW9cw8H0Vda7yYd/XtOFstu1UdSgCFEMOfqGn1eTNvaAfaVglJ9+G/LeNgnP xQPCrxneftY8DWL117AxUYwblZBFib0vD4BzmMrgGaVRx69Q6RjLhuD2093YeqEX vfbnhQaBEmSIcueWEVaCcIwg2+6n4Q== =IXBH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QD2Xc8f9s7Wm99ZT--