Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:13:56 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To:     Slade Watkins <srw@sladewatkins.net>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AUTOSEL process
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:05:16PM -0500, Slade Watkins wrote:
> On 2/28/23 06:28, Greg KH wrote:
> >> But just so you know, as a maintainer, you have the option to request that
> >> patches to your subsystem will not be selected by AUTOSEL and run your
> >> own process to select, test and submit fixes to stable trees.
> > 
> > Yes, and simply put, that's the answer for any subsystem or maintainer
> > that does not want their patches picked using the AUTOSEL tool.
> > 
> > The problem that the AUTOSEL tool is solving is real, we have whole
> > major subsystems where no patches are ever marked as "for stable" and so
> > real bugfixes are never backported properly.
> 
> Yeah, I agree.
> 
> And I'm throwing this out here [after having time to think about it due to an
> internet outage], but, would Cc'ing the patch's relevant subsystems on AUTOSEL
> emails help? This was sort of mentioned in this email[1] from Eric, and I
> think it _could_ help? I don't know, just something that crossed my mind earlier.
> 

AFAICT, that's already being done now, which is good.  What I was talking about
is that the subsystem lists aren't included on the *other* stable emails.  Most
importantly, the "FAILED: patch failed to apply to stable tree" emails.

- Eric