On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:12:56 -0500 Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I see. Thanks for the clarification. I will keep that in mind next time.
Yes, this patch should go to stable. I think the stable tree maintainersNo. Both the Fixes: and the cc:stable are needed for the backport.
will automatically pick up patches with the "Fixes" tag. That is why I
don't explicitly put a "cc:stable" line in the patch.
Because sometimes we fix things but don't consider the fix important
enough to risk the backport.