Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Dec 2020 20:06:01 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] uapi: fix statx attribute value overlap for DAX & MOUNT_ROOT |
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On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 5:24 PM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote: > > > > > Stable cc also? > > > > > > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.8 > > > > That seems to be unnecessary, provided there's a Fixes: tag. > > Is it? > > Fixes: means it fixes a patch, Cc: stable means it needs to be > included in stable kernels. The two are not necessarily the same. > > Greg?
You are correct. cc: stable, as is documented in https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html ensures that the patch will get merged into the stable tree.
Fixes: is independent of it. It's great to have for stable patches so that I know how far back to backport patches.
We do scan all commits for Fixes: tags that do not have cc: stable, and try to pick them up when we can and have the time to do so. But it's not guaranteed at all that this will happen.
I don't know why people keep getting confused about this, we don't document the "Fixes: means it goes to stable" anywhere...
thanks,
greg k-h
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