From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9698787A for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 21:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04D96137 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2016 21:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 23:25:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Dmitry Torokhov , Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20160803185902.GB36266@dtor-ws> Message-ID: References: <87a8guq9y8.fsf@intel.com> <20160803132607.GA31662@kroah.com> <20160803141937.GA9180@kroah.com> <57A21252.7000407@roeck-us.net> <20160803161234.GA32965@dtor-ws> <57A21F88.7000504@roeck-us.net> <20160803172015.GA36266@dtor-ws> <20160803182105.GA11395@roeck-us.net> <20160803185902.GB36266@dtor-ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: James Bottomley , Trond Myklebust , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > I wonder if we could change meaning of naked cc: stable@ to mean latest > stable only, and if fix is important enough then maintainer or somebody > else can annotate how far back the fix should be applied? Ideally with > "Fixes: XXX"? Yeah, James already proposed that and I totally agree with that. Greg, would you have any objection to formulating some rule a-la "all the stable anotations should either be accompanied by explicit 'Fixes:', or explicit range of kernel versions the patch is applicable to"? I believe this is a very reasonable compromise between "maintainers or submitters have to do their homework wrt. stable" and "we don't want to impose too much overhead to anybody". Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs