From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DE8BB317173; Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777474969; cv=none; b=pRJZPpo5QFRVWlr0RHoBZmpSeuPctFEWJcNKPKnGSYuoKnu6IccX9yN6Vxnah87C16yd25eUDHEB1UNKQ79YYBUc9LR3xJCjWXmlGXL4mqIdIzFrMAvlVoGC1NLoVOnd2etn81owopZlYRLaPF1+3jQxYfwmnZAd/Qs7y32s4sk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777474969; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ctAPrMfJMsxRRxCRa2/i4MD59Jh65U6AxRazSKD4SxE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=pYtaZUORDEy7uVOyQWXmHZ8TU6grDVGx2jckzcYm9zLBpLB88a7Rr9rQLRXKMvJ9Xgto8NSGMfUV3EMHRwuXwKHRXwHmpU0VXafKwBOpZVkadSx8PpoeqOHT1NM4Uu3JoWBeoCmVuOKsHndIgDxa8QzJYEElobRs0YnunITMySw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=domVGPMi; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="domVGPMi" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8644BC19425; Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:02:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1777474969; bh=ctAPrMfJMsxRRxCRa2/i4MD59Jh65U6AxRazSKD4SxE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=domVGPMi+BytALRWQwbV+rxuszvrZJ3HULkM1FUtnMzkS9N1fu825zw1n/BZ5uEST urbRA4B0fFu9IsIY6IZ3Dl/C2o1MMq5DyHxfZbeZyt239A/Tn13XDxY4fPEun1yNSc YhyJpKvd7LqouCy/8dAhWO0xufpyOY8TFVYEzfuiipB3uL+TTwNbn3WFvQooELh/xr BSvgGgEtSexonRGwEF57woOGQDODc/PxEc4lYv1AOGQXRIDp5LrGasKXE6peG3dSx6 ZJ9iJMqdkYhP3wT44LGNbgx0QZKmCmMk02h7Ll366Fe0EbhKeHQgwLz5lHgNwwvyeC yut6IH8k8t31Q== Received: from johan by xi.lan with local (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1wI6R5-00000000lJy-0a7h; Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:02:47 +0200 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:02:47 +0200 From: Johan Hovold To: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , driver-core@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] driver core: faux: fix root device registration Message-ID: References: <20260424153127.2647405-1-johan@kernel.org> <20260424153127.2647405-2-johan@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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