Do changesets that already included the "Fixes:" tag in the commit
description also need to include the "Cc: [email protected]" in
order to be included in stable?
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Thanks,
Steve
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: [email protected]" 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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected]" 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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Thanks,
Steve