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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Slade Watkins <srw@sladewatkins.net>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AUTOSEL process
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 07:06:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y/7rYr92A2BNEyZ2@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8caf1c23-54e7-6357-29b0-4f7ddf8f16d2@sladewatkins.net>

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:05:16PM -0500, Slade Watkins wrote:
> On 2/28/23 06:28, Greg KH wrote:
> >> But just so you know, as a maintainer, you have the option to request that
> >> patches to your subsystem will not be selected by AUTOSEL and run your
> >> own process to select, test and submit fixes to stable trees.
> > 
> > Yes, and simply put, that's the answer for any subsystem or maintainer
> > that does not want their patches picked using the AUTOSEL tool.
> > 
> > The problem that the AUTOSEL tool is solving is real, we have whole
> > major subsystems where no patches are ever marked as "for stable" and so
> > real bugfixes are never backported properly.
> 
> Yeah, I agree.
> 
> And I'm throwing this out here [after having time to think about it due to an
> internet outage], but, would Cc'ing the patch's relevant subsystems on AUTOSEL
> emails help? This was sort of mentioned in this email[1] from Eric, and I
> think it _could_ help? I don't know, just something that crossed my mind earlier.

I don't know, maybe?  Note that determining a patch's "subsystem" at
many times is difficult in an automated fashion, have any idea how to do
that reliably that doesn't just hit lkml all the time?

But again, how is that going to help much, the people who should be
saying "no" are the ones on the signed-off-by and cc: lines in the patch
itself.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-01  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-26  3:42 [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 01/21] ARM: OMAP2+: omap4-common: Fix refcount leak bug Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 02/21] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Add additional A2NoC clocks Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 03/21] udf: Define EFSCORRUPTED error code Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 04/21] context_tracking: Fix noinstr vs KASAN Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 05/21] exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 06/21] ARM: dts: exynos: Use Exynos5420 compatible for the MIPI video phy Sasha Levin
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 08/21] blk-iocost: fix divide by 0 error in calc_lcoefs() Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 09/21] blk-cgroup: dropping parent refcount after pd_free_fn() is done Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 10/21] blk-cgroup: synchronize pd_free_fn() from blkg_free_workfn() and blkcg_deactivate_policy() Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 11/21] trace/blktrace: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() 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 [this message]
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
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
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 13/21] sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 14/21] btrfs: scrub: improve tree block error reporting Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 15/21] arm64: zynqmp: Enable hs termination flag for USB dwc3 controller Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 16/21] cpuidle, intel_idle: Fix CPUIDLE_FLAG_INIT_XSTATE Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 17/21] entry, kasan, x86: Disallow overriding mem*() functions Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 18/21] x86/fpu: Don't set TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD for PF_IO_WORKER threads Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 19/21] cpuidle: drivers: firmware: psci: Dont instrument suspend code Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 20/21] cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG Sasha Levin
2023-02-26  3:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 21/21] perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Meteor Lake support Sasha Levin

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