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To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kunit: tool: undo type subscripts for subprocess.Popen
Date:   Mon,  3 Jul 2023 19:54:11 +0000
Message-Id: <20230703195411.16567-1-sj@kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <2023070322-retype-lanky-6f2d@gregkh>
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 21:44:53 +0200 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 07:27:04PM +0000, SeongJae Park wrote:
[...]
> > This patch is now in the mainline (e30f65c4b3d671115bf2a9d9ef142285387f2aff).
> > However, this fix is not in 6.4.y yet, so the original issue is reproducible on
> > 6.4.y.  Could you please add this to 6.4.y?  I confirmed the mainline commit
> > can cleanly applied on latest 6.1.y tree, and it fixes the issue.
> 
> As this was not specifically tagged with a "cc: stable..." marking, that
> is why it was not picked up automatically.

I understand that.  I thought this would be merged into the mainline before
v6.4 release, but I was wrong.

> Also, we do not normally add patches to any stable releases until it is in a
> released kernel from Linus (i.e. a -rc release), unless you have a specific
> reason for it to be merged earlier.
> 
> Should this be merged "now" into the stable trees and not wait for
> 6.5-rc1?

The problem is not urgent, so I can wait until 6.5-rc1.


Thanks,
SJ

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h