linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.4 07/12] arm64: cpufeature: detect FEAT

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Message-ID: <0404e7ef-8b1f-483c-a167-56140b29f0cc@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:47:12 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, james.morse@....com,
        mark.rutland@....com, amit.kachhap@....com, maz@...nel.org,
        anshuman.khandual@....com, joey.gouly@....com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.4 07/12] arm64: cpufeature: detect FEAT_HCX

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 03:31:42PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 10:44:38AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:

> > Maybe we just need a commit hook that yells if something with a Fixes:
> > tag doesn't have a CC: stable on it?

> I could start doing that, it's going to be really noisy...

It would need to exclude commits that are only in -next since that's a
common legitimate use case for Fixes which shouldn't have a Cc to
stable, and there's going to be a bunch of false positives from people
who are overly enthusiastic in their use of fixes tags.

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