Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15T22:38:08Z

On 07/15/2013 03:07 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:04:28PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 13:19 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> That seems to be a bit drastic. It is quite useful to have the tag,
>>> but maybe it should only be added by the maintainer and not in the initial
>>> patch submission. This would ensure that the maintainer(s) made the decision.
>>> If the original patch submitter thinks that the patch is stable material,
>>> that information could be added in the comments section.
>>
>> In the case where a maintainer applies a patch with 'git am', surely
>> they can *see* that it's cc:stable?
>>
> If that maintainer is careful, yes. But that isn't the point or idea. The
> difference is that the maintainer would have to make an active decision
> to add the cc:stable tag vs. just going along with it.
>

WTF? If a maintainer applies a patch and misses that the thing had a
Cc: <stable> tag, that maintainer should never have applied the patch in
the first place.

It gets stickier in the case of submaintainers where there are git pulls
involved.

-hpa