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=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,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 636F2C433EF for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:27:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B7C61156 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:27:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233860AbhIUU3P (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:29:15 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34972 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229912AbhIUU3O (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:29:14 -0400 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [IPv6:2a0a:51c0:0:12e:550::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0FDCCC061574; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:27:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Gleixner DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1632256064; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=jUZoMfwEcfPfeLuGk2EFaP58Bnu+SHtciLXgKuOk21Q=; b=JRAsG3P2GwfdINWMv4KcitfGWdpHMW/RioiI7K5/scm6W3Vcm1l0rzkNsGw/42Eh8xMhCA one7Bv1o0Dta06VF6LXAe8YUX6dlxDBG2F7YEzLR/WJhdxuaLQfghcnpGMHNk5lu9nGVYk o6bOyG9FlAwXwGWQUDswHSXN6j1okgVaoVAibqwu3KEgkhvYEslplwV7VPBVnnG4YytUYM FpOrY7g7pNyR67a/eNQ7KXsd5+4Fd+mEldezq69Z8YanJ33vLYkj52qChnBqtVM0v2ROLu 1fMXZ8HzZLTyLOqsyS2D4Rowbk2Vc1Sfkgqj3QDdTfaDfReeec1pYqpbgjNA0A== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1632256064; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=jUZoMfwEcfPfeLuGk2EFaP58Bnu+SHtciLXgKuOk21Q=; b=pzl2WCj1z5sHljOygoGKUl9QwW7hVFcX2kl/hNhzAsCMgG5D85Qx9rgZvligzs5D9IbFiK RtiMlKL1zOdwcGAQ== To: Sasha Levin , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "# 3.4.x" , Lukas Hannen , Paolo Bonzini , Juergen Gross Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.14 298/334] time: Handle negative seconds correctly in timespec64_to_ns() In-Reply-To: References: <20210913131113.390368911@linuxfoundation.org> <20210913131123.500712780@linuxfoundation.org> <874kak9moe.ffs@tglx> <87sfy38p1o.ffs@tglx> <87ee9n80gz.ffs@tglx> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 22:27:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87sfxx65dr.ffs@tglx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 21 2021 at 15:20, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:31:08AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >>On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 05:46:57PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>>On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 09:29:32PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>> >>>>I guess I was not able to express myself correctly. What I wanted to say >>>>is: >>>> >>>> 1) Default is AUTOSEL >>>> >>>> 2) Maintainer can take files/subsystems out of AUTOSEL completely >>>> >>>> Exists today >>>> >>>> 3) Maintainer allows AUTOSEL, but anything picked from files/subsystems >>>> without a stable tag requires an explicit ACK from the maintainer >>>> for the backport. >>>> >>>> Is new and I would be the first to opt-in :) >>>> >>>>My rationale for #3 is that even when being careful about stable tags, >>>>it happens that one is missing. Occasionaly AUTOSEL finds one of those >>>>in my subsystems which I appreciate. >>>> >>>>Does that make more sense now? >>> >>>Ah, yes, that makes much more sense, sorry for the confusion. >>> >>>Sasha, what do you think? You are the one that scripts all of this, not >>>me :) >> >>I could give it a go. It adds some complexity here but is probably worth >>it to avoid issues. >> >>Let me think about the best way to go about it. > > So I'm thinking of yet another patch series that would go out, but > instead of AUTOSEL it'll be tagged with "MANUALSEL". It would work the > exact same way as AUTOSEL, without the final step of queueing up the > commits into the stable trees. > > Thomas, do you want to give it a go? Want to describe how I filter for > commits you'd be taking care of? In the past I'd grep a combo of paths > and committers (i.e. net/ && davem@), but you have your hands in too > many things :) Indeed. :( So pretty much all what matches in MAINTAINERS entries where my name happened to end up for some reasons. That would be a good start. Might be a bit overbroad as it also includes x86/kvm, x86/xen, x86/pci which I'm not that involved with, but to make it simple for you, I just volunteered the relevant maintainers (CCed) to participate in that experiment. :) Thanks, tglx