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 283331465BA; Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:20:10 +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=1713446411; cv=none; b=tEgMAeP/KwXMwgvWN0g6OtGPHSAnTH7zX1Uow2BsXQbzXyHDJZ/XMlzhoDjsqHyviXifWAkxbPOiXnO1Sn7kEguqoj8MtyotAF5ac5x+Eh9UMPjBfUlP03n8yBDY/eMVqvKpJJuvQemKEnfcu4atB76+YmzxLHl1xh35N2J0G8o= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1713446411; c=relaxed/simple; bh=KuXUfSk6dLkFeMsUCp1jQslKdCD8Ny3LXJ/2zNIWA/0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=cxbtBVkNwSVQ3M1xa92rUf4AdrUZKPHcuOlwq1Agm7Zncbxbg+0yuJOBTTfRVItvU+L4i2SRfOxF8qOa9HBpz3vVGef/bvD2eK/MHxI5xpTwMCiIyFhMolC+TYE9lT+godzoAf89O2Sf1kWKwj3tlfatm32QHz/dbmYIuBrr0QY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=IVvXmYNi; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="IVvXmYNi" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6D918C113CC; Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:20:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1713446410; bh=KuXUfSk6dLkFeMsUCp1jQslKdCD8Ny3LXJ/2zNIWA/0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=IVvXmYNiyrTlIDjyFTweu89H+2IUXocshq92girXgg6rVvtZeruylAc3ltUG1jZmN aDcmWuP7zemzW2Tyr4BSZuVBg9SA1DwzjQOoHGMWmBE4zFCQzLO6L5qXzzvK6l3Q0w HIVbuRulIF0zcIRM3xbYcArxRk0B8T5oTAnhTbbk= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:20:07 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev , helpdesk@kernel.org, "workflows@vger.kernel.org" , LKML Subject: Re: Please create the email alias do-not-apply-to-stable@kernel.org -> /dev/null Message-ID: <2024041830-karaoke-aspirate-df00@gregkh> References: <20240417-lively-zebu-of-tact-efc8f3@lemur> <2024041734-gleeful-freewill-b24b@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 17.04.24 15:38, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:21:12PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> On 17.04.24 14:52, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 09:48:18AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >>>> Could you please create the email alias > >>>> do-not-apply-to-stable@kernel.org which redirects all mail to /dev/null, > >>>> just like stable@kernel.org does? > >>>> > >>>> To quote: > >>>> > >>>>> How about: > >>>>> cc: # Reason goes here, and must be present > >>>>> > >>>>> and we can make that address be routed to /dev/null just like > >>>>> is? > >> > >> FWIW, we could go back to what I initially proposed: use the existing > >> stable tag with a pre-defined comment to mark patches that AUTOSEL et. > >> al. should not pick up: > >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/c0a08b160b286e8c98549eedb37404c6e784cf8a.1712812895.git.linux@leemhuis.info/ > > > > If you can pick a better string, possibly, yes. > > What did you think of Konstantin's > > Cc: stable+noautosel@kernel.org # Reason > > That looked like a good solution -- and I wondered why I did not come up > with that idea myself. Sure, "autosel" would also imply/mean "the > scripts/tools that look out for Fixes: tags", but does that matter? We can live with this, sure. That way no need to change anything on any kernel.org backend. thanks, greg k-h