Re: "Fixes:" vs. "Cc: stable ..."

[Steve French]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:58 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:14:12PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> > Do changesets that already included the "Fixes:" tag in the commit
> > description also need to include the "Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" in
> > order to be included in stable?
>
> As per the documentation:
>     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
>
> You should be putting cc: stable@... on the patch.
>
> But as not all maintainers do, we have to dig through those with Fixes:
> in order to actually catch all bugfixes :(
>
> So please, use cc: stable.

Makes sense - I had noticed a patch which I was going to include in next P/R
which was missing this (fixed now).


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Thanks,

Steve