Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [4/4] Discuss how to better prevent backports of commits that turn out to cause regressions

Andrew Lunn
2024-06-13T14:28:50Z

> * One cause of regressions that happen in stable trees (and not in
> mainline) I've seen quite a few times are backports of commits with
> Fixes: tags that were part of a patch-series and depend on earlier
> patches from the series. The stable-team afaics has no easy way to spot
> this, as there is no way to check "was this change part of a series".

This sounds like a tooling issue. git send-email knows a patch is part
of a patch series. Maybe it should be adding some sort of cross
reference between patches in a patch series.

Andrew