Re: "Fixes:" vs. "Cc: stable ..."

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