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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:20:18 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] driver core: faux: fix root device registration
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J . Wysocki"
 <rafael@kernel.org>, <driver-core@lists.linux.dev>,
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To: "Johan Hovold" <johan@kernel.org>
From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
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On Wed Apr 29, 2026 at 1:19 PM CEST, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The stable rules have been relaxed in practice since Autosel. Anything
> that looks like a fix (e.g. has a Fixes tag) gets backported.
>
> And people get tired of asking the stable team to drop patches that were
> not marked for backporting.

There is still a difference between this happening in practice and using th=
at as
a justification to explicitly request a stable backport for something that =
- by
the official rules - isn't mandated for stable backport.

If the rules changed to the point that they don't apply anymore for decidin=
g
whether to stick Cc: stable on a patch or not, then they should be adjusted
accordingly.