Re: [PATCH 1/2] edac: altera: fix deferred probing

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 10:17:55PM +0300, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:

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My experience tells they do.

Let's ask them:

@stable folks, do you guys take patches based only on Fixes: tags nowadays or you still require CC:stable to be present in the commit message?

If you know you want a patch in the stable tree, add cc: stable.

Because not all maintainers remember to do so, we do dig through all patches with just the fixes: tag, and try to backport them if needed, but it does not always happen, and there can be long lags as well.

So again, if you know you want it in a stable kernel, add the cc: stable.

thanks,

greg k-h

Borislav Petkov

10:33 a.m.

New subject: [PATCH 1/2] edac: altera: fix deferred probing

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 07:48:34AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:

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If you know you want a patch in the stable tree, add cc: stable.

Because not all maintainers remember to do so, we do dig through all patches with just the fixes: tag, and try to backport them if needed, but it does not always happen, and there can be long lags as well.

So again, if you know you want it in a stable kernel, add the cc: stable.

Thanks for clarifying. I already did so - I figured having cc:stable won't hurt anyway. Besides, it is an explicit statement that "that patch is stable material" because Fixes: doesn't always necessarily mean, stable material.

Thx.

-- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

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