Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:52:58 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: 5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable |
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On Tue 13-07-21 18:28:13, Andrew Morton wrote: [...] > > Trying to keep a "do not apply" list for Fixes: tags only is much harder > > for both of us as we do these semi-manually and review them > > individually. Trying to remember what subsystem only does Fixes tags > > yet really doesn't mean it is an impossible task. > > Well, it shouldn't be super hard to skip all patches which have Fixes:, > Signed-off-by:akpm and no cc:stable? > > I'd really really prefer this, please.
Yes please!
> At present this -stable > promiscuity is overriding the (sometime carefully) considered decisions > of the MM developers, and that's a bit scary.
Not only scary, it is also a waste of precious time of those who carefuly evaluate stable tree backports.
> I've actually been > spending the past couple of years believing that if I left off > cc:stable, the fix wasn't going to go into -stable! > > Alternatively I could just invent a new tag to replace the "Fixes:" > ("Fixes-no-backport?") to be used on patches which fix a known previous > commit but which we don't want backported.
Please no. We already do have a way to mark for stable trees. The fact that stable kernel maintainers tend oto ignore that shouldn't put the burden to developers/maintainers. But hey, if stable maintainers really want to push to quantity over quality then be it....
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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