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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 2/4] docs: stable-kernel-rules: mention "no semi-automatic backport"
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:13 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 09:50:24AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > On 11.04.24 09:40, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 08:59:39AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > >> On 11.04.24 07:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > >>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 07:25:04AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > >>>> Some developers deliberately steer clear of 'Fixes:' tags to prevent
> > >>>> changes from being backported semi-automatically by the stable team.
> > >>>> That somewhat undermines the reason for the existence of the Fixes: tag,
> > >>>> hence point out there is an alternative to reach the same effect.
> > > [...]
> > >>> I do not understand, why are you saying "cc: stable" here if you do NOT
> > >>> want it backported?
> > >> Because the only alternative the developers have to make the stable team
> > >> not pick a single patch[1] is to deliberately omit a Fixes: tag even if
> > >> the patch normally should have one. Like it was done here:
> > >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1712226175.git.antony.antony@secunet.com/
> > > That feels odd, but ok I now see the need for this for some minor set of
> > > changes (i.e. this has rarely come up in the past 15+ years)
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >> E.g. 'ignore for the AUTOSEL and the "Fixes tag only" tools'. That was
> > >> the best term I came up with.
> > >
> > > Thinking about it more, I think we need to be much more explicit, and
> > > provide the reason why.
> > >
> > > How about:
> > > cc: <do-not-apply-to-stable@kernel.org> # Reason goes here, and must be present
> > >
> > > and we can make that address be routed to /dev/null just like
> > > <stable@kernel.org> is?
> >
> > Totally fine with me, but that feels somewhat long and hard to type.
>
> I want it long and hard to type and very very explicit that this is what
> the developer/maintainer wants to have happen (again, because this is
> such a rare occurrence.)
>
> > How
> > about just 'no-stable@kernel.org' (or 'nostable@kernel.org')?
>
> More words are better :)

And after that, someone discovers this turns out to be (a hard
dependency for) a very critical fix that does need backporting?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68korg

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

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