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

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, 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 :-(.

I know Fixes tag will surely do it. However, the two above mentioned 
patches were in series that were sent without any Fixes tags nor cc 
stables for any of the patches within the same series.

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 i.