On Tue 13-07-21 18:28:13, Andrew Morton wrote: [...]
Trying to keep a "do not apply" list for Fixes: tags only is much harder for both of us as we do these semi-manually and review them individually. Trying to remember what subsystem only does Fixes tags yet really doesn't mean it is an impossible task.
Well, it shouldn't be super hard to skip all patches which have Fixes:, Signed-off-by:akpm and no cc:stable?
I'd really really prefer this, please.
Yes please!
At present this -stable promiscuity is overriding the (sometime carefully) considered decisions of the MM developers, and that's a bit scary.
Not only scary, it is also a waste of precious time of those who carefuly evaluate stable tree backports.
I've actually been spending the past couple of years believing that if I left off cc:stable, the fix wasn't going to go into -stable!
Alternatively I could just invent a new tag to replace the "Fixes:" ("Fixes-no-backport?") to be used on patches which fix a known previous commit but which we don't want backported.
Please no. We already do have a way to mark for stable trees. The fact that stable kernel maintainers tend oto ignore that shouldn't put the burden to developers/maintainers. But hey, if stable maintainers really want to push to quantity over quality then be it....