Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2023 13:26:36 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, 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 12:28:23PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:

> In an ideal world, all maintainers would properly mark their patches for
> stable backporting (as documented for the past 15+ years, with a cc:
> stable tag, NOT a Fixes: tag), but we do not live in that world, and
> hence, the need for the AUTOSEL work.

Just as a datapoint here: I stopped making any effort to copy stable on
things due to AUTOSEL, it's pulling back so much more than I would
consider for stable that it no longer seems worthwhile to try to make
decisions about what might fit.

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