From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CA5C43461 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:09:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F358720760 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:09:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1599289794; bh=Wg3+Qu6Tcoap3P4f6Mve+MDrXT+Vqw3r0BLXGotNuvA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=l3V6yCNc6aSbI6OooHx+AxB++tKUe9j5Eh4GJF73fCQ9KmrwRUANCdsHz9hI3hXOW SVwszIKDx8dqgwECugIe6zRA1jfUfwyrFAztUt3PX/GbA7K7w/cM83zpLd4+sHYqYP RI9iNpS81s6JS189EXv/r5TqfMjJA0H9HcSj7qFw= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726065AbgIEHJv (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2020 03:09:51 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:53318 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725818AbgIEHJv (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2020 03:09:51 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-74-64.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.74.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4FA42206B5; Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:09:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1599289790; bh=Wg3+Qu6Tcoap3P4f6Mve+MDrXT+Vqw3r0BLXGotNuvA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=a7elA0glWjabA83LJIx3SWddHmwLgkwcjYHOoeFCD8lspJz9H+rb5+ITni5qa25qQ g4S4gWuRdBJA+4ib2kdTGtcsLfcLe7cFhnbUEdK6s+d+HX39RqfxqwT+c0HkQfslxn Ud5QaRPThKenDjNquYXMA0lVZVlGTsgRPdkr9MTY= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 09:09:46 +0200 From: Greg KH To: SeongJae Park Cc: Muchun Song , Filipe Manana , Hauke Mehrtens , Alexander Tsoy , Takashi Iwai , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Michael Chan , Christophe JAILLET , Vincent Guittot , Taehee Yoo , Fabio Estevam , Jan Kara , Dongli Zhang , YueHaibing , Cong Wang , Chris Wilson , Mika Kuoppala , Nicholas Johnson , Adam Ford , Tudor Ambarus , Xiaochen Shen , sashal@kernel.org, amit@kernel.org, sj38.park@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [5.4.y] Found 27 commits that might missed Message-ID: <20200905070946.GA184702@kroah.com> References: <20200904114935.GE2831752@kroah.com> <20200904141748.3658-1-sjpark@amazon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200904141748.3658-1-sjpark@amazon.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 04:17:48PM +0200, SeongJae Park wrote: > > > > > > Stopping right here, if you have fixes that will not cleanly apply, and > > you think they should be applied, please fix them and send the proper > > backport. I don't have the cycles to do these on my own. > > > > Same for anything else here that you think should be applied but does > > not cleanly build/apply. > > Totally agreed. Actually, I posted a similar report[1] before and received > similar response. I promised to back-port some of those by myself. That's > still in my TODO list, but I was unable to get a time to revisit it quite long > time. From this, I realized that it wouldn't be easy to review, test, and > backport all of the such suspicious things by myself. Scaling up to multiple > stable series (the tool says there are 152 fixes and 147 mentions for 4.9.y) > seems impossible. > > For the reason, I updated the tool to make the report to be sent to not only > the stable maintainers but also the authors of the suspicious commits, because > the review / test / backport of their own commits would be much easier that > others. As a result, we were able to find one suspended commit: > https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CAKfTPtAkOes+HmVabRazhCBBUo0M+QW38q3Zzj_O3O+Ghvc1pA@mail.gmail.com/ That work had already been done before your email was sent. I too can write a tool that sends out "this patch might be for stable, will you do the work for it!" emails, but that's a bit rude to ask others to do your work for you, don't you agree? By asking me and others to dig through this list, when you said you don't have the time to do so, feels very odd to me. And if you have only 152 "fixes" for 4.9.y, that's great, should be easy to work through. I do know that most of the "easy" backports are already done, so what is left are the ones that take real work, or do not make any sense, as your list shows. So I don't think this report actually helped anyone here, do you? Again, if you can do the backporting, that will help out greatly. thanks, greg k-h