linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/599] 5.10.110-rc1 review

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Date:   Wed, 6 Apr 2022 10:11:29 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, pavel@...x.de, jonathanh@...dia.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com,
        slade@...dewatkins.com, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/599] 5.10.110-rc1 review

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 11:24:13PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 23:08:12 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > Here's a thought, if you decide to backport a patch to stable, and you see
> > that there's another commit with a "Fixes" tag to the automatically
> > selected commit. DO NOT BACKPORT IF THE FIXES PATCH FAILS TO GO BACK TOO!
> 
> Seriously. This should be the case for *all* backported patches, not just
> the AUTOSEL ones.
> 
> Otherwise you are backporting a commit to "stable" that is KNOWN TO BE
> BROKEN!

My scripts usually do catch this, let me go see what went wrong...