From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AUTOSEL process
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:54:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZA9xWaHuh3hiYr8X@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZA9gXRMvQj2TO0W3@kroah.com>
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 06:41:49PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > (Even just stable-kernel-rules.rst is totally incorrect these days.)
>
> I do not understand this, what is not correct?
>
> It's how to get patches merged into stable kernels, we go
> above-and-beyond that for those developers and maintainers that do NOT
> follow those rules. If everyone followed them, we wouldn't be having
> this discussion at all :)
The entire list of rules for what patches are accepted into stable. This is a
longstanding issue that has been reiterated many times in the past, see
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20220924182124.GA19210@duo.ucw.cz for example.
The fact is, many people *do* follow the rules exactly by *not* tagging commits
for stable when they don't meet the documented eligibility criteria. But then
the stable maintainers backport the commits anyway, as the real eligibility
criteria are *much* more relaxed than what is documented.
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-13 18:55 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20230226034256.771769-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2023-02-26 3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 07/21] fs: Use CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION() when kernel bugs are detected Sasha Levin
2023-02-26 3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 12/21] fs/super.c: stop calling fscrypt_destroy_keyring() from __put_super() Sasha Levin
2023-02-26 4:07 ` Eric Biggers
2023-02-26 5:30 ` Eric Biggers
2023-02-26 19:24 ` Eric Biggers
2023-02-26 19:33 ` Slade Watkins
2023-02-27 14:18 ` Sasha Levin
2023-02-27 17:47 ` AUTOSEL process Eric Biggers
2023-02-27 18:06 ` Eric Biggers
2023-02-27 20:39 ` Sasha Levin
2023-02-27 21:38 ` Eric Biggers
2023-02-27 22:35 ` Sasha Levin
2023-02-27 22:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-28 0:52 ` Sasha Levin
2023-02-28 1:25 ` Eric Biggers
2023-02-28 4:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-30 0:08 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-30 14:05 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-30 17:22 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-30 17:50 ` Sasha Levin
2023-02-28 0:32 ` Eric Biggers
2023-02-28 1:53 ` Sasha Levin
2023-02-28 3:41 ` Eric Biggers
2023-02-28 10:41 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-02-28 11:28 ` Greg KH
2023-03-01 2:05 ` Slade Watkins
2023-03-01 5:13 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-01 6:09 ` Greg KH
2023-03-01 7:22 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-01 7:40 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-01 8:31 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-01 8:43 ` Greg KH
2023-03-01 6:06 ` Greg KH
2023-03-01 7:05 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-01 10:31 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-03-01 13:26 ` Mark Brown
2023-02-28 17:03 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-10 23:07 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-11 13:41 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-11 15:54 ` James Bottomley
2023-03-11 18:07 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-12 19:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-07 21:18 ` Pavel Machek
2023-03-07 21:45 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-11 6:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-03-11 8:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-11 11:45 ` Pavel Machek
2023-03-11 12:29 ` Greg KH
2023-03-21 12:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2023-03-11 14:06 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-11 16:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-11 17:48 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-11 18:26 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-11 18:54 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-11 19:01 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-11 21:14 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-12 8:04 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-03-12 16:00 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-13 17:41 ` Greg KH
2023-03-13 18:54 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2023-03-14 18:26 ` Greg KH
2023-03-11 20:17 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-11 21:02 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-12 4:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-11 18:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-11 19:24 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-11 19:46 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-11 20:19 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-11 20:59 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-11 20:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-11 20:53 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-12 4:32 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-12 5:21 ` Eric Biggers
2023-03-12 5:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-12 7:42 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-03-12 13:34 ` Mark Brown
2023-03-12 15:57 ` Sasha Levin
2023-03-12 13:55 ` Mark Brown
2023-03-11 22:38 ` David Laight
2023-03-12 4:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2023-03-12 5:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-14 14:12 ` Jan Kara
2023-03-13 3:37 ` Bagas Sanjaya
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