Re: Re: Patch "drm: Fix color LUT rounding" has been added to the 6.7-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 11:35:33AM -0600, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 06:53:03PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>>On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 11:17:28AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>>>On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 08:35:24PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 10:16:48AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 08:05:19PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>>>> > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 12:03:20PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>> > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > >     drm: Fix color LUT rounding
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > > to the 6.7-stable tree which can be found at:
>>>> > > >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > > The filename of the patch is:
>>>> > > >      drm-fix-color-lut-rounding.patch
>>>> > > > and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory.
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>>>> > > > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I guess I wasn't clear enough in the other mail...
>>>> > >
>>>> > > NAK for all of backports of this patch.
>>>> >
>>>> > Ok, but why?  It seems that you are fixing a real issue here, right?  If
>>>> > not, the changelog is not clear with that at all...
>>>> >
>>>> > I'll go drop it now, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Because backporting it would require other backports that depend on
>>>> the rounding behaviour.
>>>>
>>>> Can I somehow fully opt out of these automagic backports?
>>>> If I want my stuff backported I'll ask for it.
>>>
>>>You can, just let me know what exact files should be ignored, or you can
>>>send a patch against this file:
>>>	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ignore_list
>>
>>I think we should add at least i915 and xe there. cc: maintainers
>
>It does feel a little wild to decide a patch needs to be backported
>based on the commit title starting with "Fix", or whatever way was used
>here. We always relied on patches being backported based on a) having a
>Fixes: trailer and  b) the commit pointed out in that trailer
>being present in that stable version. Or the others options shown
>in Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
>
>Looking at the commit in question, c6fbb6bca10838485b820e8a26c23996f77ce580
>there's no such a trailer. Did I miss something from
>Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst?

Where did you see anything about the Fixes: trailer in the document
you've pointed to?

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Thanks,
Sasha