Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes"

Daniel Wang
2018-12-12T20:11:29Z

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 9:43 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:59:39PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> >On (12/12/18 14:36), Petr Mladek wrote:
> >> > OK, really didn't know that! I wasn't Cc-ed on that AUTOSEL email,
> >> > and I wasn't Cc-ed on this whole discussion and found it purely
> >> > accidentally while browsing linux-mm list.
> >>
> >> I am sorry that I did not CC you. There were so many people in CC.
> >> I expected that all people mentioned in the related commit message
> >> were included by default.
> >
> >No worries! I'm not blaming anyone.
> >
> >> > So if you are willing to backport this set to -stable, then I wouldn't
> >> > mind, probably would be more correct if we don't advertise this as a
> >> > "panic() deadlock fix"
> >>
> >> This should not be a problem. I guess that stable does not modify
> >> the original commit messages unless there is a change.
> >
> >Agreed.
>
> I'll be happy to add anything you want to the commit message. Do you
> have a blurb you want to use?

If we still get to amend the commit message, I'd like to add "Cc:
stable@vger.kernel.org" in the sign-off area. According to
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#option-1
patches with that tag will be automatically applied to -stable trees.
It's unclear though if it'll get applied to ALL -stable trees. For my
request, I care at least about 4.19 and 4.14. So maybe we can add two
lines, "Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14.x" and "Cc:
<stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19.x".

>
> --
> Thanks,
> Sasha

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Best,
Daniel

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