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Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:52:35 +0100
From:   "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 113/290] net: dsa: implement a central TX
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 05:06:16PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 07:56:02PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
> > > Tested-by: Christian Eggers <ceggers@arri.de> # For tail taggers only
> > > Tested-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
> > > Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > 
> > For context, Sasha explains here:
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg190151.html
> > (the conversation is somewhat truncated, unfortunately, because
> > stable-commits@vger.kernel.org ate my replies)
> > that 13 patches were backported to get the unrelated commit 9200f515c41f
> > ("net: dsa: tag_mtk: fix 802.1ad VLAN egress") to apply cleanly with git-am.
> > 
> > I am not strictly against this, even though I would have liked to know
> > that the maintainers were explicitly informed about it.
> > 
> > Greg, could you make your stable backporting emails include the output
> > of ./get_maintainer.pl into the list of recipients? Thanks.
> 
> Did it not happen here? I've looked at Greg's script[1] and it seemed to
> me like it does go through get_maintainer.pl.
> 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/gregkh/gregkh-linux/blob/master/scripts/generate_cc_list

That's just a script I use for "normal" kernel development when creating
patches, not for stable stuff.

thanks,

greg k-h