Re: AUTOSEL process

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Mar 01 2023 - 08:26:51 EST


On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 12:28:23PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:

> In an ideal world, all maintainers would properly mark their patches for
> stable backporting (as documented for the past 15+ years, with a cc:
> stable tag, NOT a Fixes: tag), but we do not live in that world, and
> hence, the need for the AUTOSEL work.

Just as a datapoint here: I stopped making any effort to copy stable on
things due to AUTOSEL, it's pulling back so much more than I would
consider for stable that it no longer seems worthwhile to try to make
decisions about what might fit.

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