Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] driver core: faux: fix root device registration

Johan Hovold
2026-04-29T15:02:49Z

On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 04:20:18PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> 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 that as
> a justification to explicitly request a stable backport for something that - by
> the official rules - isn't mandated for stable backport.

Again, feel free to drop the CC stable tag if you want to.

Johan