From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F88C07E96 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:03:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9305561183 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:03:38 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 9305561183 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux-m68k.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id CD92C8D00D7; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:03:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id C628E8D00CD; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:03:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id ADC088D00D7; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:03:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0033.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.33]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C948D00CD for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:03:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin40.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA3D8248047 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:03:37 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 78365141274.40.0B69E47 Received: from mail-vk1-f171.google.com (mail-vk1-f171.google.com [209.85.221.171]) by imf04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71C0500009F for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vk1-f171.google.com with SMTP id n201so1364741vke.7 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:03:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=EAL3ij4XHjgPpAzfV3wX0aIEqeSH+vMpMbMC6ALQt4E=; b=RCj4bv9yhDvb6h48A4yYN3UBb9smW8152waQjBz4tVYplFAfSkCFmZPgNPieCKkqWY iJaXJvvb/PdE7jfzSezNBVzhO+uGqamgjMjiOzHtBhwDNo9BL/TUzR5KJbgXID6vMzq7 SLkZzcLg7Pit083IS8/RdnaTum19cG/DkADTOX9x3vU+6mw44W9lLhJ/30mzJc2EbESN kUdJgmTEyl9gODUsHSoQCdS5ucdxGx8YCkj4rb2TrwQszf8H4U+Bf+fBCKXjNq7BttKK Hnm3FQ/+i+4U/Kh6L2ct1h5sc89TpQ6Tv6vNCQsvO9D7EC+EFShkK9YjuQjr4jvK0NtN dIpg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532yuZKtpI2OBXilFJoOMJ5m/vs1qlcNdJXLGFoTCqgEJEL46+6O Z+dWoAzmZ1s+VaXlLVtD89zE7WiDqE2+7/koI1E= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwbqg3ncsIf8J4QDR0YkMtKrmi/eHuq+3V/c8gGsc897xRlIPN5LQKmvS/uo7TCrlmUYMIDLB0TgFoq5+M8MEA= X-Received: by 2002:a1f:2746:: with SMTP id n67mr6163414vkn.5.1626361416269; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:03:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2b1b798e-8449-11e-e2a1-daf6a341409b@google.com> <20210713182813.2fdd57075a732c229f901140@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:03:25 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Sasha Levin , Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Hugh Dickins , Linus Torvalds , Mike Kravetz , Miaohe Lin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux MM , stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Rspamd-Server: rspam06 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: D71C0500009F X-Stat-Signature: w4pzza7ggdfbuuiytg85q6oaby48ibgt Authentication-Results: imf04.hostedemail.com; dkim=none; spf=pass (imf04.hostedemail.com: domain of geertuytterhoeven@gmail.com designates 209.85.221.171 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=geertuytterhoeven@gmail.com; dmarc=none X-HE-Tag: 1626361416-534110 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: Hi Ted, On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:47 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:01:04AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Because cc: stable came first, and for some reason people think that it > > > is all that is necessary to get patches committed to the stable tree, > > > despite it never being documented or that way. I have to correct > > > someone about this about 2x a month on the stable@vger list. > > > > For a developer, it's much easier to not care about "Cc: stable" > > at all, because as soon as you add a "Cc: stable" to a patch, or CC > > stable, someone will compain ;-) Much easier to just add a Fixes: tag, > > and know it will be backported to trees that have the "buggy" commit. > > What sort of complaints have you gotten? I add "cc: stable" for the > ext4 tree, and I can't say I've gotten any complaints. Usually a complaint about using the wrong process for subsystem X. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds