Re: [PATCH crypto-stable v3 1/2] crypto: arch/lib - limit simd usage to 4k chunks

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:47:00PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 20:42, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:18:15AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > FYI: you shouldn't cc stable@vger.kernel.org directly on your patches,
> > > or add the cc: line. Only patches that are already in Linus' tree
> > > should be sent there.
> >
> > Not true at all, please read:
> >     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> > for how to do this properly.  Please do not spread incorrect
> > information.
> >
> > And Jason did this properly, he put cc: stable@ in the s-o-b area and
> > all is good, I will pick up this patch once it hits Linus's tree.
> >
> > And there is no problem actually sending the patch to stable@vger while
> > under development like this, as it gives me a heads-up that something is
> > coming, and is trivial to filter out.
> >
> > If you really want to be nice, you can just do:
> >         cc: stable@kernel.org
> > which goes to /dev/null on kernel.org, so no email will be sent to any
> > list, but my scripts still pick it up.  But no real need to do that,
> > it's fine.
> >
> 
> OK, thanks for clearing this up.
> 
> So does this mean you have stopped sending out 'formletter'
> auto-replies for patches that were sent out to stable@vger.kernel.org
> directly, telling people not to do that?
> 

I often leave stable@vger.kernel.org in the email Cc list, and no one has ever
complained.  It's only sending patches directly "To:" stable@vger.kernel.org
that isn't allowed, except when actually sending out backports.

If there were people who had an actual issue with Cc, then I think the rules
would have changed long ago to using some other tag like Backport-to that
doesn't get picked up by git send-email.

- Eric