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From: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Subject: [PATCH v2 5/5] docs: stable-kernel-rules: create special tag to flag 'no backporting'
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:18:30 +0200
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Document a new variant of the stable tag developers can use to make the
stable team's tools ignore a change[1].

That way developers can use 'Fixes:' tags without fearing the changes
might be backported in semi-automatic fashion. Such concerns are the
reason why some developers deliberately omit the 'Fixes:' tag in
changes[2] -- which somewhat undermines the reason for the existence of
that tag and might be unwise in the long term[3].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b452fd54-fdc6-47e4-8c26-6627f6b7eff3@leemhuis.info/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1712226175.git.antony.antony@secunet.com/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/dfd87673-c581-4b4b-b37a-1cf5c817240d@leemhuis.info/ [3]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>

---

A patch to make one of the stable-script honor the flag can be found in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/655ce2a3-eb04-4ade-999e-23fc5dc5fb3a@leemhuis.info/

For autosel I was unable to locate the code.
---
 Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
index ebf4152659f2d0..9ca8083b41c7f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ comment to pass arbitrary or predefined notes:
 
     Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # see patch description, needs adjustments for <= 6.3
 
+There furthermore is a variant of the stable tag you can use to make the stable
+team's backporting tools (e.g AUTOSEL or scripts that look for commits
+containing a 'Fixes:' tag) ignore a change::
+
+     Cc: <stable+noautosel@kernel.org> # reason goes here, and must be present
+
 .. _option_2:
 
 Option 2
-- 
2.44.0