linux-kernel - Re: 5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable

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Message-ID: <YO7sNd+6Vlw+hw3y@sashalap>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:52:53 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:18:14AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 06:28:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Alternatively I could just invent a new tag to replace the "Fixes:"
>> ("Fixes-no-backport?") to be used on patches which fix a known previous
>> commit but which we don't want backported.
>
>No please, that's not needed, I'll just ignore these types of patches
>now, and will go drop these from the queues.
>
>Sasha, can you also add these to your "do not apply" script as well?

Sure, but I don't see how this is viable in the long term. Look at
distros that don't follow LTS trees and cherry pick only important
fixes, and see how many of those don't have a stable@ tag.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha