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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: "quic_jhugo@quicinc.com" <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com>,
	"quic_carlv@quicinc.com" <quic_carlv@quicinc.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
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	KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
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	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: hv: Fix the definition of vector in hv_compose_msi_msg()
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:56:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZCX3Ys8BCRODV0jD@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SA1PR21MB13350093800BC2C387EE0648BF8E9@SA1PR21MB1335.namprd21.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 07:50:11PM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > ...
> > > e70af8d040d2 has a Fixes tag. Not sure why it's not automatically
> > backported.
> > 
> > Because "Fixes:" is not the flag that we are sure to trigger off of.
> > Please read:
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> > for how to do this properly.
> 
> Thanks, I just read this again to refresh my memory :-)
> I remember Sasha has an AI algorithm to pick up patches into the stable
> tree and a "Fixes" tag should be a strong indicator. 

Yes, we have to rely on "hints" like that due to maintainers not wanting
to put any cc: stable tags for many subsystems so we have to dig them
out somehow.

> If I add the cc: stable line in a patch and use git-send-email to post
> the patch, git-send-email also posts the patch to the stable list -- is
> this acceptable?

Totally acceptable.

> Sometimes a patch may have to undergo multiple
> revisions, meaning all the discussion emails go to the stable list
> unnecessarily, and I guess this is not good?

It's not a problem at all, happens all the time and in fact I like it as
it gives us a heads-up that a patch is going to be eventually merged for
us to handle.

> It looks like there is no git-send-email option to exclude an email.

No need to, don't worry about that at all.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-30 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20221027205256.17678-1-decui@microsoft.com>
2023-03-30  1:56 ` [PATCH v2] PCI: hv: Fix the definition of vector in hv_compose_msi_msg() Boqun Feng
2023-03-30  2:55   ` Boqun Feng
2023-03-30  3:23     ` Dexuan Cui
2023-03-30  5:58       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-03-30 19:50         ` Dexuan Cui
2023-03-30 20:56           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2023-04-03 18:50           ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-04-03 19:29             ` Dexuan Cui
2023-04-03 13:07       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-04-03 18:29         ` Dexuan Cui

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