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.
In an ideal world, all maintainers would properly mark their patches for stable backporting (as documented for the past 15+ years, with a cc: stable tag, NOT a Fixes: tag), but we do not live in that world, and hence, the need for the AUTOSEL work.
(I wish we did... Oh well.)
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/Y%2Fzswi91axMN8OsA@sol.localdomain/
-- Slade