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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.15 36/78] net: phy: meson-gxl: check
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 11:18:57AM +0100, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 04:56 +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 9042b46eda33ef5db3cdfc9e12b3c8cabb196141 ]
> > 
> > Always check phy_write return values. Better to be safe than sorry
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> > Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
> 
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> I have recently received a few mails from you with [PATCH AUTOSEL], such as this
> one. I'm wondering what are the criteria to select these patches? This one does
> not have a "Fixes" tag and, I believe, stable was not CCed of the original
> patch. Do you have another selection method ?
> 
> I really sorry if you already got this question a thousand times.
> 
> I have nothing against this patch making its way to a stable release BTW, it
> won't do any harm.

Sasha, I think by now we need a "FAQ" link somewhere to point people at
that describes how these patches are being selected as it comes up every
other week or so, and I imagine you are getting tired of repeating
yourself :)

If you want me to find some place on kernel.org to put the text, I'll be
glad to do so.

thanks,

greg k-h