linux-kernel - Re: AUTOSEL process

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Message-ID: <Y/9SjIDSss390Ki/@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2023 13:26:36 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AUTOSEL process

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 12:28:23PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:

> In an ideal world, all maintainers would properly mark their patches for
> stable backporting (as documented for the past 15+ years, with a cc:
> stable tag, NOT a Fixes: tag), but we do not live in that world, and
> hence, the need for the AUTOSEL work.

Just as a datapoint here: I stopped making any effort to copy stable on
things due to AUTOSEL, it's pulling back so much more than I would
consider for stable that it no longer seems worthwhile to try to make
decisions about what might fit.

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