Re: AUTOSEL process

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 03:07:04PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 07:41:31PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > Well, probably more common is that prerequisites are in the same patchset, and
> > the prerequisites are tagged for stable too.  Whereas AUTOSEL often just picks
> > patch X of N.  Also, developers and maintainers who tag patches for stable are
> > probably more likely to help with the stable process in general and make sure
> > patches are backported correctly...
> >
> > Anyway, the point is, AUTOSEL needs to be fixed to stop inappropriately
> > cherry-picking patch X of N so often.
>
> ... and AUTOSEL strikes again, with the 6.1 and 6.2 kernels currently crashing
> whenever a block device is removed, due to patches 1 and 3 of a 3-patch series
> being AUTOSEL'ed (on the same day I started this discussion, no less):
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/CAOCAAm4reGhz400DSVrh0BetYD3Ljr2CZen7_3D4gXYYdB4SKQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
>
> Oh sorry, ignore this, it's just an anecdotal example.

Yes, clearly a problem with AUTOSEL and not with how sad the testing
story is for stable releases.

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Thanks,
Sasha