Re: fs/bcachefs/

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:26:38PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 03:13:08PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 05:12:17PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > Hi stable team - please don't take patches for fs/bcachefs/ except from
> > > myself; I'll be doing backports and sending pull requests after stuff
> > > has been tested by my CI.
> > 
> > Now done:
> > 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/commit/?id=9bf1f8f1ca9ae53cf3bc8781e4efdb6ebaee70db
> > 
> > We will ignore it for any "Fixes:" tags, or AUTOSEL, but if you
> > explicitly add a "cc: stable@" in the signed-off-by area, we will pick
> > that up.
> 
> Would it work for your process to ignore cc: stable@ as well?

Nope!  That's explicit, you add it for when you want us to pick up a
change when it hits Linus's tree.  If you don't want that to happen,
then don't add it.

> I want a tag that I can have tooling grep for later that means "this
> patch should be backported later, after seeing sufficient testing", and
> cc: stable@ has that meaning in current usage.

Just use a "Fixes:" tag then, that's what networking did for years
before they gave up and now use cc: stable.

thanks,

greg k-h