Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/599] 5.10.110-rc1 review

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 23:08:12 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's a thought, if you decide to backport a patch to stable, and you see
> that there's another commit with a "Fixes" tag to the automatically
> selected commit. DO NOT BACKPORT IF THE FIXES PATCH FAILS TO GO BACK TOO!

Seriously. This should be the case for *all* backported patches, not just
the AUTOSEL ones.

Otherwise you are backporting a commit to "stable" that is KNOWN TO BE
BROKEN!

-- Steve