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Message-ID: <2024041830-karaoke-aspirate-df00@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:20:07 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
helpdesk@...nel.org,
"workflows@...r.kernel.org" <workflows@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please create the email alias do-not-apply-to-stable@...nel.org
-> /dev/null
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 17.04.24 15:38, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:21:12PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >> On 17.04.24 14:52, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 09:48:18AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >>>> Could you please create the email alias
> >>>> do-not-apply-to-stable@...nel.org which redirects all mail to /dev/null,
> >>>> just like stable@...nel.org does?
> >>>>
> >>>> To quote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> How about:
> >>>>> cc: <do-not-apply-to-stable@...nel.org> # Reason goes here, and must be present
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and we can make that address be routed to /dev/null just like
> >>>>> <stable@...nel.org> is?
> >>
> >> FWIW, we could go back to what I initially proposed: use the existing
> >> stable tag with a pre-defined comment to mark patches that AUTOSEL et.
> >> al. should not pick up:
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/c0a08b160b286e8c98549eedb37404c6e784cf8a.1712812895.git.linux@leemhuis.info/
> >
> > If you can pick a better string, possibly, yes.
>
> What did you think of Konstantin's
>
> Cc: stable+noautosel@...nel.org # Reason
>
> That looked like a good solution -- and I wondered why I did not come up
> with that idea myself. Sure, "autosel" would also imply/mean "the
> scripts/tools that look out for Fixes: tags", but does that matter?
We can live with this, sure. That way no need to change anything on any
kernel.org backend.
thanks,
greg k-h
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