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Message-ID: <655ce2a3-eb04-4ade-999e-23fc5dc5fb3a@leemhuis.info>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:49:29 +0200
From: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
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

[CCing Sasha]

On 18.04.24 15:20, Greg KH wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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

@Greg, BTW: should this be stable+noautosel@...nel.org or have a 'vger.'
in it, e.g. stable+noautosel@...r.kernel.org? I assume without 'vger.'
is fine, just wanted to be sure, as
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst in all other cases
specifies stable@...r.kernel.org, so people are likely to get confused.
:-/ #sigh

>> 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. 

In that case I guess I now also have to fix the scripts to honor that tag.

@Greg: something like the attached for scripts/fixes_search perhaps? Was
that the right one and are there any other scripts that might need
something similar?

@Sasha: are the scripts around autosel online somewhere? They need a
similar change.

Ciao, Thorsten
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