Messages in this thread | | | From | Steve French <> | Date | Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:11:51 -0500 | Subject | Re: "Fixes:" vs. "Cc: stable ..." |
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:58 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:14:12PM -0500, Steve French wrote: > > Do changesets that already included the "Fixes:" tag in the commit > > description also need to include the "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" in > > order to be included in stable? > > As per the documentation: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > You should be putting cc: stable@... on the patch. > > But as not all maintainers do, we have to dig through those with Fixes: > in order to actually catch all bugfixes :( > > So please, use cc: stable.
Makes sense - I had noticed a patch which I was going to include in next P/R which was missing this (fixed now).
-- Thanks,
Steve
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