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From: Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Process question about dropped patches
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:55:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221014205503.3w2ge6srfpk6gtlt@sequoia> (raw)

Hey Greg and Sasha - I'm starting to think through how I can monitor for
dropped stable patches that touch certain file paths in order to help
out with backporting. I've come across a few examples where Greg's
automated emails point out that the patch couldn't be applied to a
certain series but then the patch shows up in a future -rc release
without anyone submitting a fixed backport to the list. An example:

FAILED email: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/1664091338227131@kroah.com/
-rc review email: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20221003070722.143782710@linuxfoundation.org/

Is this just a case of one of you manually doing the backports (or
dependency resolution) yourselves or are folks directly sending you
backports?

This isn't a problem for me, BTW. I just want to make sure that I
understand the process. Thanks!

Tyler

             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-14 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-14 20:55 Tyler Hicks [this message]
2022-10-15 11:24 ` Process question about dropped patches Sasha Levin

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