Re: Is Fixes line enough?

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:38 AM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 06:36:26PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > FWIW, I brought this up already at KS 2016, see Jon's coverage here:
> >
> >       https://lwn.net/Articles/705220/
> >
> > My primary motivation to bring that up back then was to try to reduce the
> > number of patches that are taken into -stable while there is no good
> > justification for that (by requiring each and every of those having Fixes:
> > present as a requirement), but it didn't really lead anywhere.
>
> Ah, I didn't get that you were trying to suggest that things only go
> into stable if it has both Fixes: *and* Cc: Stable.
>
> If that's the problem you were trying to solve, perhaps we could ask
> Stephen Rothwell if he would be willing to run a script that sends
> nag-o-grams to Maintainers who incluce patches in linux-next that have
> Cc: stable but neither Fixes nor a "# 4.x" appended to the end of the
> Cc: stable line?
>

Patches adding new PCI/USB/ACPI IDs or DMI quirks are usually accepted
into stable but normally lack "Fixes" tag.

Thanks.

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Dmitry