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Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 20:08:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: Is Fixes line enough?
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > Ah, I didn't get that you were trying to suggest that things only go 
> > into stable if it has both Fixes: *and* Cc: Stable.
> >
> > If that's the problem you were trying to solve, perhaps we could ask
> > Stephen Rothwell if he would be willing to run a script that sends
> > nag-o-grams to Maintainers who incluce patches in linux-next that have
> > Cc: stable but neither Fixes nor a "# 4.x" appended to the end of the
> > Cc: stable line?
> >
> 
> Patches adding new PCI/USB/ACPI IDs or DMI quirks are usually accepted
> into stable but normally lack "Fixes" tag.

That could easily be made an easily identifiable exception to the rule 
though.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs