Re: [PATCH] iommu/s390: Make attach succeed when the device was surprise removed

[Benjamin Block]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 04:05:48PM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 15:52 +0200, Benjamin Block wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 10:59:49AM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.2
> > 
> > Oh, I just noticed that Niklas. You added `Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx`, but
> > didn't actually include the address on the actual Cc of the mail? Was that
> > intentional?
> > 
> 
> Yes it was intentional. It's my understanding that the tag is enough
> for the stable team to pick the commit up once it lands in Linus' tree.
> And I do have stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx explicitly ignored in b4 to
> prevent accidentally sending not-yet-ready or internal patches there.

Well, if it worked for you in the past, fair enough! I've always put it on Cc,
hence why I was wondering :)

> Sadly the docs don't spell out that Ccing the list isn't needed though
> I feel like it is implied by the "Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx" variant where
> the docs mention that mails send by git send-email will go nowhere.

I think that part only means that address is basically /dev/null, even if a
mail is sent there. `git send-email` will try to include any address on such a
Cc tag by default
(https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email#Documentation/git-send-email.txt---suppress-cccategory)


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