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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:03:25 +0200
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Subject: Re: 5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
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Hi Ted,

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:47 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:01:04AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Because cc: stable came first, and for some reason people think that it
> > > is all that is necessary to get patches committed to the stable tree,
> > > despite it never being documented or that way.  I have to correct
> > > someone about this about 2x a month on the stable@vger list.
> >
> > For a developer, it's much easier to not care about "Cc: stable"
> > at all, because as soon as you add a "Cc: stable" to a patch, or CC
> > stable, someone will compain ;-)  Much easier to just add a Fixes: tag,
> > and know it will be backported to trees that have the "buggy" commit.
>
> What sort of complaints have you gotten?  I add "cc: stable" for the
> ext4 tree, and I can't say I've gotten any complaints.

Usually a complaint about using the wrong process for subsystem X.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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                                -- Linus Torvalds