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Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:30:15 +0200 From: Petr Mladek To: Andrew Morton Cc: Bradley Morgan , Feng Tang , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya , Andy Shevchenko , Jinchao Wang , Kees Cook , Rio , Joel Granados , Pnina Feder , Petr Pavlu , Sergey Senozhatsky , Douglas Anderson , Mayank Rungta , Tejun Heo , Zhenguo Yao , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko , Miroslav Benes , Jiri Kosina Subject: Fixed tag magic: was: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] sys_info: add helper for callers that handle all_bt Message-ID: References: <9b8c96e291696815d3c7de5d3e199298dee0279d.1782228656.git.include@grrlz.net> <20260624133419.a2d566f50c44ee2d4e0fb395@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260624133419.a2d566f50c44ee2d4e0fb395@linux-foundation.org> On Wed 2026-06-24 13:34:19, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:34:58 +0000 Bradley Morgan wrote: > > > Some callers handle SYS_INFO_ALL_BT themselves before calling sys_info(). > > Add a helper that strips that bit without turning an all_bt only mask into > > a kernel_sys_info fallback. > > I assume this patch wants a Fixes: and a cc:stable also. > > It would be nice to have the conventional [0/N] cover letter to tell > readers what this is all about. > > The patches all have different Fixes: targets. This risks inviting the > -stable maintainers to merge only some of the patches into some > kernels, resulting in an untested combination and which might break > things. I do not agree here. The Fixes tag should should point to a commit which introduced the regression into the given code. And finding some magic common point beause there is some magic undocumented process for maintaining stable kernels sounds like a way to hell to me. Best Regards, Petr