On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 01:42:45PM -0700, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
Hi Sasha,
Hello!
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 5:45 PM Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org wrote:
Hi,
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Where did you get this patch from? Since stable needs patches merged
This bot grabs them from various mailing lists.
on Linus tree, shouldn't your scripts run to try backporting only patches from there?
There's a note a few lines down that says:
"NOTE: The patch will not be queued to stable trees until it is upstream."
Otherwise, no, there's no rule that says we can't look at patches before they are upstream. We can't queue them up, but we sure can poke them.
The reasoning behind this is that it's easier to get replies (and backports) from folks who are actively working on the patch now, rather than a few weeks later when Greg sends his "FAILED:" mails and gets ignored because said folks have moved on.
-- Thanks, Sasha