Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/53] 4.14.331-rc2 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 09:39:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.331 release.
> > > > There are 53 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > 
> > > > Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >     RDMA/hfi1: Use FIELD_GET() to extract Link Width
> > > 
> > > This is a good cleanup, but not a bugfix.
> > > 
> > > > Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >     atm: iphase: Do PCI error checks on own line
> > > 
> > > Just a cleanup, not sure why it was picked for stable.
> > 
> > Just an additional bit of information, there have been quite many cleanups 
> > from me which have recently gotten the stable notification for some 
> > mysterious reason. When I had tens of them in my inbox and for various 
> > kernel versions, I immediately stopped caring to stop it from happening.
> > 
> > AFAIK, I've not marked those for stable inclusion so I've no idea what
> > got them included.
> 
> Fixes tag can do it. Plus, "AUTOSEL" robot does it randomly, with no
> human oversight :-(.

the autosel bot has lots of oversight.