linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.5 133/150] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: deprioritize old Fixes: addresses

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Date:   Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:50:28 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.5 133/150] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: deprioritize old
 Fixes: addresses

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:18:29PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:20:32AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 14:37 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> > > 
> > > commit 0ef82fcefb99300ede6f4d38a8100845b2dc8e30 upstream.
> > 
> > I think adding just about any checkpatch patch to stable a bit silly.
> > Including patches to checkpatch.
> > 
> 
> On the other hand, Greg is one of the worst affected by the old behavior
> since he has so many old email addresses and he's also the stable
> maintainer.

Exactly, lots of people still do development against the latest released
kernel, which is 5.5 here...

thanks,

greg kh-