From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E18A5C7619A for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:56:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229841AbjC3U4M (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:56:12 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54502 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229786AbjC3U4L (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:56:11 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 07ACFCA39; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97A67621AF; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 79419C433EF; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:56:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1680209765; bh=0djKXzg5S9iieMQ+tqm7uwpizSVx6AIzaRoioVm/uUA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=h9suXRmM0KtxtECkOEwilpDhN6528XVIj0jE6on13fOsyvBVdR0+N8nJwkgjxd4M7 ZJSetTh4LettQtbTgvXjLLr3cMuv3AgeFmwiYlXBqjJ99uW0VJ+aAv5Vc/j+7UkCBT Z6EanJfXLrbadglUINO6aH7UkLLhX8ecRyzYnKPU= Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:56:02 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Dexuan Cui Cc: "quic_jhugo@quicinc.com" , "quic_carlv@quicinc.com" , Boqun Feng , "wei.liu@kernel.org" , KY Srinivasan , Haiyang Zhang , "sthemmin@microsoft.com" , "lpieralisi@kernel.org" , "bhelgaas@google.com" , "linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Michael Kelley (LINUX)" , "robh@kernel.org" , "kw@linux.com" , "helgaas@kernel.org" , "alex.williamson@redhat.com" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: hv: Fix the definition of vector in hv_compose_msi_msg() Message-ID: References: <20221027205256.17678-1-decui@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 07:50:11PM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > ... > > > e70af8d040d2 has a Fixes tag. Not sure why it's not automatically > > backported. > > > > Because "Fixes:" is not the flag that we are sure to trigger off of. > > Please read: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > for how to do this properly. > > Thanks, I just read this again to refresh my memory :-) > I remember Sasha has an AI algorithm to pick up patches into the stable > tree and a "Fixes" tag should be a strong indicator. Yes, we have to rely on "hints" like that due to maintainers not wanting to put any cc: stable tags for many subsystems so we have to dig them out somehow. > If I add the cc: stable line in a patch and use git-send-email to post > the patch, git-send-email also posts the patch to the stable list -- is > this acceptable? Totally acceptable. > Sometimes a patch may have to undergo multiple > revisions, meaning all the discussion emails go to the stable list > unnecessarily, and I guess this is not good? It's not a problem at all, happens all the time and in fact I like it as it gives us a heads-up that a patch is going to be eventually merged for us to handle. > It looks like there is no git-send-email option to exclude an email. No need to, don't worry about that at all. thanks, greg k-h