From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A677424EAA4 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1743688742; cv=none; b=op1epj8e0kT9t+PkNIzRqRtZzt7UvdHMe+JVFFvoK8lFJJJLKhtZH5k44CFMHtW22DkKFchgNL+LBZAA4e7Sdor2Gt2lXcIMsHQ8ne27b9RjaUV8y+vAtABEBXB9TUxTxmobvBWE26zFuLXPMSpKZiEvMDETb6zPvPRPiggQ0Fo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1743688742; c=relaxed/simple; bh=2wkjBXkBQWZsUSLI+tDFA5nKmzRxZKJUp0TaBjyLQX8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=WLAHGMekYokwGpcdzFqQfFEvVDOowSPCnpPbyW8BNMV6kg2GFlx4sR9ZaL18PeFOyYo9B/B7gkXgO3Psp69L1JF/7SM7my92GcdO5mEVN3TSnjO4CroEzWXIcJb0i9c460du73Y/HstUPelD7F9xWdeyNBJwUGqFfAAtBMzSgEQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=LBsNjDBR; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="LBsNjDBR" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3E77C4CEE3; Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:59:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1743688742; bh=2wkjBXkBQWZsUSLI+tDFA5nKmzRxZKJUp0TaBjyLQX8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=LBsNjDBRNcwbqJp7bJL7Qw6HDkzxY58oZzFX9qFRAWs9Q7QBv+vwiDnvo1xWJAGOV SkDRBvtdZqsDVanBNy8ko6MLyXSzw2mxIER45vHK7WfagbccEBpjMjcRr9EJmZzh/L LTk/voGb3x+Xtl0nWtc4eZYa2qYxNWF6E3DNPr/4= Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 14:57:34 +0100 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: "Manthey, Norbert" Cc: "sashal@kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Improving Linux Commit Backporting Message-ID: <2025040348-grant-unstylish-a78b@gregkh> References: <2025040348-living-blurred-eb56@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2025040348-living-blurred-eb56@gregkh> On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 02:45:35PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 01:15:28PM +0000, Manthey, Norbert wrote: > > Dear Linux Stable Maintainers, > > > > while maintaining downstream Linux releases, we noticed that we have to > > backport some patches manually, because they are not picked up by your > > automated backporting. Some of these backports can be done with > > improved cherry-pick tooling. We have implemented a script/tool "git- > > fuzzy-pick" which we would like to share. Besides picking more commits, > > the tool also supports executing a validation script right after > > picking, e.g. compiling the modified source file. Picking stats and > > details are presented below. > > > > We would like to discuss whether you can integrate this improved tool > > into into your daily workflows. We already found the stable-tools > > repository [1] with some scripts that help automate backporting. To > > contribute git-fuzzy-pick there, we would need you to declare a license > > for the current state of this repository. > > There's no need for us to declare the license for the whole repo, you > just need to pick a license for your script to be under. Anything > that's under a valid open source license is fine with me. > > That being said, I did just go and add SPDX license lines to all of the > scripts that I wrote, or that was already defined in the comments of the > files, to make it more obvious what they are under. Wait, you should be looking at the scripts in the stable-queue.git tree in the scripts/ directory. You pointed at a private repo of some things that Sasha uses for his work, which is specific to his workflow. thanks, greg k-h