Re: [PATCH crypto-stable v3 1/2] crypto: arch/lib - limit simd usage to 4k chunks

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 22:23, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:47:00PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 20:42, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:18:15AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > > FYI: you shouldn't cc stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx directly on your patches,
> > > > or add the cc: line. Only patches that are already in Linus' tree
> > > > should be sent there.
> > >
> > > Not true at all, please read:
> > >     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> > > for how to do this properly.  Please do not spread incorrect
> > > information.
> > >
> > > And Jason did this properly, he put cc: stable@ in the s-o-b area and
> > > all is good, I will pick up this patch once it hits Linus's tree.
> > >
> > > And there is no problem actually sending the patch to stable@vger while
> > > under development like this, as it gives me a heads-up that something is
> > > coming, and is trivial to filter out.
> > >
> > > If you really want to be nice, you can just do:
> > >         cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > which goes to /dev/null on kernel.org, so no email will be sent to any
> > > list, but my scripts still pick it up.  But no real need to do that,
> > > it's fine.
> > >
> >
> > OK, thanks for clearing this up.
> >
> > So does this mean you have stopped sending out 'formletter'
> > auto-replies for patches that were sent out to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > directly, telling people not to do that?
> >
>
> I often leave stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in the email Cc list, and no one has ever
> complained.  It's only sending patches directly "To:" stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> that isn't allowed, except when actually sending out backports.
>
> If there were people who had an actual issue with Cc, then I think the rules
> would have changed long ago to using some other tag like Backport-to that
> doesn't get picked up by git send-email.
>

OK, good to know.