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* "Fixes:" vs. "Cc: stable ..."
@ 2022-08-24 17:14 Steve French
  2022-08-24 17:58 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Steve French @ 2022-08-24 17:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stable; +Cc: LKML

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?

-- 
Thanks,

Steve

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* Re: "Fixes:" vs. "Cc: stable ..."
  2022-08-24 17:14 "Fixes:" vs. "Cc: stable ..." Steve French
@ 2022-08-24 17:58 ` Greg KH
  2022-08-24 18:11   ` Steve French
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2022-08-24 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steve French; +Cc: Stable, LKML

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.

thanks,

greg k-h

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* Re: "Fixes:" vs. "Cc: stable ..."
  2022-08-24 17:58 ` Greg KH
@ 2022-08-24 18:11   ` Steve French
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Steve French @ 2022-08-24 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg KH; +Cc: Stable, LKML

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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