On 09.10.23 16:17, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
On 07.10.23 13:44, Greg KH wrote: Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.18+
Which is the syntax described in Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst.
This is wrong. The example in that file has "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+" without the v. Still, looking at other commits, the syntax with leading v is common enough that it's worth handling.
I see now though that Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst has a slightly different syntax:
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.3.x
Perhaps your maintainer scripts can't handle both cases?
FWIW, I've reached out multiple times about that the patches aren't suitable for backports:
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/6e3ad25c-1042-f786-6f0e-f71ae85aed6b@pengutronix...
- a76406b2-4154-2de4-b1f5-43e86312d487@pengutronix.de (reply to linux-stable-commits)
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/7df69de2-1b3a-5226-7dc2-d1489e48f6a2@pengutronix...
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/e85da95c-5451-31ea-cae9-76d697fb548f@pengutronix...
Yet, today I got an email[1] telling me that it's being added to v5.4.258-rc1, although it had been dropped from v5.4.257-rc1 after I objected to it.
So that looks like another potential avenue for improving the maintainer scripts.
Thanks, Ahmad
thanks,
greg k-h