Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:54:17 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, 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 Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 06:41:49PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > (Even just stable-kernel-rules.rst is totally incorrect these days.)
> 
> I do not understand this, what is not correct?
> 
> It's how to get patches merged into stable kernels, we go
> above-and-beyond that for those developers and maintainers that do NOT
> follow those rules.  If everyone followed them, we wouldn't be having
> this discussion at all :)

The entire list of rules for what patches are accepted into stable.  This is a
longstanding issue that has been reiterated many times in the past, see
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20220924182124.GA19210@duo.ucw.cz for example.

The fact is, many people *do* follow the rules exactly by *not* tagging commits
for stable when they don't meet the documented eligibility criteria.  But then
the stable maintainers backport the commits anyway, as the real eligibility
criteria are *much* more relaxed than what is documented.

- Eric