From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B86C47E4B for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B6461183 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234656AbhGOPGc (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:06:32 -0400 Received: from mail-vk1-f174.google.com ([209.85.221.174]:35451 "EHLO mail-vk1-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229937AbhGOPGa (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:06:30 -0400 Received: by mail-vk1-f174.google.com with SMTP id d7so1369052vkf.2; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:03:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=EAL3ij4XHjgPpAzfV3wX0aIEqeSH+vMpMbMC6ALQt4E=; b=BT6pfSR9BcHfAHBPvx40QPag8S8c5fBSS+7k2VZeKd4glxl6HyVgzjYQ1+JN5xmi9P OnZU41IYQT8fQsHhax2uuK6Mc7QJ0kQb/QfrZqaaxp/qSRJpNoD2S3Dnes8u26FhQ0bi cHdjCKzxVzGwg+nhxKE7i/aiPx2zS1rzdZRgHinMm3wOyBYO58JxtMXnBdFaDXue6ImO gNetsHAWUlgbyZ1h6sZWJR6G6Mxnbe20lb7DMhoiM9lmoA6J5KAWQlDWHCHZmz5whkf3 R5kzIa22XnWFMBVHRBq/jQ0PwLoRt+IhfQ89So3o5ZaP4CmTNzl6FsK6SB17vVtKtYsf 9+zw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5336LV/0Inx4fHWW9nLKfBRzaNfmUBZqDVL/T1YIzzTxcNeBI8DI BxS0RZus65N6ErCjvaBvG5LQfRIUgoH9nuw5JDE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwbqg3ncsIf8J4QDR0YkMtKrmi/eHuq+3V/c8gGsc897xRlIPN5LQKmvS/uo7TCrlmUYMIDLB0TgFoq5+M8MEA= X-Received: by 2002:a1f:2746:: with SMTP id n67mr6163414vkn.5.1626361416269; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:03:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2b1b798e-8449-11e-e2a1-daf6a341409b@google.com> <20210713182813.2fdd57075a732c229f901140@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:03:25 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Sasha Levin , Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Hugh Dickins , Linus Torvalds , Mike Kravetz , Miaohe Lin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux MM , stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Ted, On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:47 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > 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. Usually a complaint about using the wrong process for subsystem X. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds