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?
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
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:58 PM Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
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.
Makes sense - I had noticed a patch which I was going to include in next P/R which was missing this (fixed now).
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