Re: AUTOSEL process

Sasha Levin
2023-03-11T13:41:51Z

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 03:07:04PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 07:41:31PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
>>
>> Well, probably more common is that prerequisites are in the same patchset, and
>> the prerequisites are tagged for stable too. Whereas AUTOSEL often just picks
>> patch X of N. Also, developers and maintainers who tag patches for stable are
>> probably more likely to help with the stable process in general and make sure
>> patches are backported correctly...
>>
>> Anyway, the point is, AUTOSEL needs to be fixed to stop inappropriately
>> cherry-picking patch X of N so often.
>>
>
>... and AUTOSEL strikes again, with the 6.1 and 6.2 kernels currently crashing
>whenever a block device is removed, due to patches 1 and 3 of a 3-patch series
>being AUTOSEL'ed (on the same day I started this discussion, no less):
>
>https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/CAOCAAm4reGhz400DSVrh0BetYD3Ljr2CZen7_3D4gXYYdB4SKQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
>
>Oh sorry, ignore this, it's just an anecdotal example.

Yes, clearly a problem with AUTOSEL and not with how sad the testing
story is for stable releases.

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Thanks,
Sasha