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Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 16:12:24 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Mimi Zohar Cc: Theodore Tso , Konstantin Ryabitsev , Greg KH , Jonathan Corbet , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Coping with the new-developer flood Message-ID: References: <87y0ekm9nw.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> <2026080651-bony-hertz-bfb6@gregkh> <20260806-industrious-whippet-of-jest-a91eaa@meerkat> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 09:02:14AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote: > On Thu, 2026-08-06 at 23:23 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 10:32:40PM -0500, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 01:28:25PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > > > > - actually applies > > > > - isn't against a known LTS branch > > > > > > No one wants patches against an LTS branch. That would violate the > > > stable rules since everything should be upstream first. > > > > Right, we should issue a warning if it's not a backport from upstream > > (e.g., if it's against an LTS branch, it should have an > > Upstream-commit: tag). > > > > There are some few exceptions, where a fix can't be easily backported > > to the LTS branch, and so a different way of fixing a particular > > serious patch needs to be applied to the LTS branch. But normally > > this will be explicitly stated in the commit description, but we don't > > do that in a structured way, so it might be hard for a non-LLM bot to > > figure this out. On the other hand, this is a pretty advanced > > technique, and it's unlikely that a new kernel developer would be > > doing something like this. So we probably just ignore this case for a > > newcomers-focused bot. > > Hi Ted, > > I have a patch that doesn't need to be upstreamed, as per Eric Bigger's > comment[1], but needs to be in stable kernels. What is the process for doing > that. > > [1]https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/0c590f6c-8ab0-f0ed-25a8-fa8a2ec6008e@huawei.com/ > Send a patch to stable@vger.kernel.org with an commit message that explains why it isn't needed upstream. regards, dan carpenter