Re: Please create the email alias do-not-apply-to-stable@xxxxxxxxxx -> /dev/null

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 17.04.24 15:38, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:21:12PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >> On 17.04.24 14:52, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 09:48:18AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >>>> Could you please create the email alias
> >>>> do-not-apply-to-stable@xxxxxxxxxx which redirects all mail to /dev/null,
> >>>> just like stable@xxxxxxxxxx does?
> >>>>
> >>>> To quote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> How about:
> >>>>> 	cc: <do-not-apply-to-stable@xxxxxxxxxx> # Reason goes here, and must be present
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and we can make that address be routed to /dev/null just like
> >>>>> <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> is?
> >>
> >> FWIW, we could go back to what I initially proposed: use the existing
> >> stable tag with a pre-defined comment to mark patches that AUTOSEL et.
> >> al. should not pick up:
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/c0a08b160b286e8c98549eedb37404c6e784cf8a.1712812895.git.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > If you can pick a better string, possibly, yes.
> 
> What did you think of Konstantin's
> 
> Cc: stable+noautosel@xxxxxxxxxx # Reason
> 
> That looked like a good solution -- and I wondered why I did not come up
> with that idea myself. Sure, "autosel" would also imply/mean "the
> scripts/tools that look out for Fixes: tags", but does that matter?

We can live with this, sure.  That way no need to change anything on any
kernel.org backend.

thanks,

greg k-h