Re: [PATCH] fs/9p: Fix TCREATE's fid in protocol

[Eric Biggers]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 02:12:49PM +0200, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> 
> > Fixes: 5643135a2846 ("fs/9p: This patch implements TLCREATE for 9p2000.L protocol.")
> > Signed-off-by: Victor Hsieh <victorhsieh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> (afaiu it is normally frowned upon for developers to add this cc (I can
> understand stable@ not wanting spam discussing issues left and right
> before maintainers agreed on them!) ; I can add it to the commit itself
> if requested but they normally pick most such fixes pretty nicely for
> backport anyway; I see most 9p patches backported as long as the patch
> applies cleanly which is pretty much all the time.
> Please let me know if I understood that incorrectly)
> 

Some people assume this, but the stable maintainers themselves say that Cc'ing
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on in-development patches is fine:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200423184219.GA80650@xxxxxxxxx

And doing so is pretty much inevitable, since the tag gets picked up by
'git send-email'.  (Yes, there's also "stable@xxxxxxxxxx", but it's not actually
what is documented.)

- Eric