Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/334] 5.10.252-rc2 review

[Sasha Levin]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 11:26:00AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2026-03-07 at 08:20 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 08:19:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2026-03-02 at 11:10 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.252 release.
> > > > There are 334 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one.
> > >
> > > And yet they were not.
> >
> > I don't think we ever did post the series for -rc2+, did we?
> [...]
>
> The patches for rc1 also weren't sent, or at least none of them reached
> the stable list.  And rc2 normally only adds or removes a small number

Ah, I see what happened. I'll add stable@. They were only sent to patches@:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260228181736.1605592-1-sashal@xxxxxxxxxx/

> of patches identified in the review of rc1, but this rc2 added nearly
> 200 for no clear reason.

There's an explanation here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aaWqrI1fLkusYqMV@laps/

But yes, maybe I should have re-sent the entire patch series given the change.

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Thanks,
Sasha