linux-kernel - Re: get_maintainer, b4, and CC: stable

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Date:   Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:32:32 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Kernel.org Tools" <tools@...ux.kernel.org>,
        "# 3.4.x" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: get_maintainer, b4, and CC: stable

On Wed, 2023-08-09 at 18:21 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 09:50:00AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> 
> > I suspect that either b4 or get_maintainer could see the Fixes tag and
> > then suggest to Cc stable for me.
> 
> > Should get_maintainer.pl make such recommendations?
> 
> People use the Fixes tag all the time for bugs that never made it into a
> release...


As Nick suggests, likely not.  Many fixes do
not belong in stable and are only commits
that update the current rc.

get_maintainer checks the "fixes:" tag and
cc's the signers of the commit being fixed.