Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.14 298/334] time: Handle negative seconds correctly in timespec64_to_ns() | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:53:00 +0200 |
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On Fri, Sep 17 2021 at 00:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > I usually spend quite some time on tagging patches for stable and it's > annoying me that this patch got reverted while stuff which I explicitely > did not tag for stable got backported for whatever reason and completely > against the stable rules: > > 627ef5ae2df8 ("hrtimer: Avoid double reprogramming in __hrtimer_start_range_ns()") > > What the heck qualifies this to be backported? > > 1) It's hot of the press and just got merged in the 5.15-rc1 merge > window and is not tagged for stable > > 2) https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > clearly states the rules but obviously our new fangled "AI" driven > approach to select patches for stable is blissfully ignorant of > these rules. I assume that AI stands for "Artifical Ignorance' here. > > I already got a private bug report vs. that on 5.10.65. Annoyingly > 5.10.5 does not have the issue despite the fact that the resulting diff
5.14.5 obviously...
> between those two versions in hrtimer.c is just in comments. > > Bah! > > Thanks, > > tglx
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