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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:47:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPBKZnWfK08PWarN@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUi+HsApqRwBDBFnfnAOs9EprDh5HCV4UncEL_cnXZasA@mail.gmail.com>

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.

     	       	       	   	       - Ted


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-15 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-13  5:55 Hugh Dickins
2021-07-13  6:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-13  7:20   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-14  1:28   ` Andrew Morton
2021-07-14  7:24     ` Jiri Slaby
2021-07-14  7:52     ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-14 15:30       ` Sasha Levin
2021-07-15  7:07         ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-15 15:57         ` Justin Forbes
2021-07-14  9:18     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-14 13:23       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-14 21:09         ` Andrew Morton
2021-07-15 10:39         ` Mel Gorman
2021-07-14 13:52       ` Sasha Levin
2021-07-14 15:35         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-14 15:43           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-14 15:46           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-14 17:21             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-14 17:34               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-15  9:01                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-07-15 14:47                   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2021-07-15 15:03                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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