Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/53] 4.14.331-rc2 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 09:48:42PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > > > Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
> > > > > >     RDMA/hfi1: Use FIELD_GET() to extract Link Width
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is a good cleanup, but not a bugfix.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
> > > > > >     atm: iphase: Do PCI error checks on own line
> > > > > 
> > > > > Just a cleanup, not sure why it was picked for stable.
> > > > 
> > > > Just an additional bit of information, there have been quite many cleanups 
> > > > from me which have recently gotten the stable notification for some 
> > > > mysterious reason. When I had tens of them in my inbox and for various 
> > > > kernel versions, I immediately stopped caring to stop it from happening.
> > > > 
> > > > AFAIK, I've not marked those for stable inclusion so I've no idea what
> > > > got them included.
> > > 
> > > Fixes tag can do it. Plus, "AUTOSEL" robot does it randomly, with no
> > > human oversight :-(.
> > 
> > the autosel bot has lots of oversight.
> 
> Can you describe how that oversight works?

There have been many papers and presentations about it, no need for me
to say it all here again...