Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE2DC6FD1D for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229836AbjCUMm0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2023 08:42:26 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40832 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229747AbjCUMmX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2023 08:42:23 -0400 Received: from angie.orcam.me.uk (angie.orcam.me.uk [IPv6:2001:4190:8020::34]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9764D428; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 05:41:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by angie.orcam.me.uk (Postfix, from userid 500) id AECCD92009D; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:41:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by angie.orcam.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0FA92009C; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:41:06 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:41:06 +0000 (GMT) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Greg KH cc: Pavel Machek , Willy Tarreau , Matthew Wilcox , Eric Biggers , Sasha Levin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AUTOSEL process In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Greg KH wrote: > So no, forcing a maintainer/author to ack a patch to get it into stable > is not going to work UNLESS a maintainer/author explicitly asks for > that, which some have, and that's wonderful. FWIW I'm happy to ack patches for stable backporting (and I tag patches of mine for stable as I deem appropriate). Maciej