From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7323BDF71 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1724477005; cv=none; b=kzG8guKPi7jXk0AXhtNgYfFdXaZ2cNKCyaNYpfVctviN5cXHOuUpasTOAwVU32lbSXacecPvhYoqXfBeeS2ob7W1HDvhUHswzSr5aBsuQWnj2+42t74xFkpS1j0qHmlB4QVS9MGvCtVRU/ZFMpZcoK/ghAFROjIH2yk78xyFM5k= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1724477005; c=relaxed/simple; bh=XWD8ceHx6o4FDlXAJq7OaMkh5r83l0cP9C27pPRs/aQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=LKlaKzqHLE8u/GDM4QBaY+pIqsqQY7X6gICamlhlUEHJ7vXQacgYh+wH6FrFYsum5SCDw7hDN/OLmjCA4XXdYWtbVoURVtDxsdxWcAm7EsaUeWwjhlmFRRpl2gGczxnTXa436hy4xp+OXCFMBv3gtTaYWb01nh0AD7Kv4RQ9Fow= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=qgf6GhvS; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="qgf6GhvS" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 91A9FC32781; Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:23:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1724477005; bh=XWD8ceHx6o4FDlXAJq7OaMkh5r83l0cP9C27pPRs/aQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=qgf6GhvSjvWqUL1dLQWb8oS1OQrp9pEzdxsSFz+VrF740AYWbm5E1snnxNvXwCarP pj3Kx2ggxhrdSCkvAyFGu1VSEYRZYPKepqwJaUWNcHbm7w/PNSohSAZI2We4sxR4sv SyIg08qkoF64YLM7OLIIXZ5sh7VzjTCCFASXl0XM= Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:23:21 +0800 From: Greg KH To: Alex Deucher Cc: Felix Kuehling , amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AMD drm patch workflow is broken for stable trees Message-ID: <2024082439-extending-dramatize-09ca@gregkh> References: <2024081247-until-audacious-6383@gregkh> <07bbc66f-5689-405d-9232-87ba59d2f421@amd.com> <2024081558-filtrate-stuffed-db5b@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 05:23:46PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 1:11 AM Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 05:30:08PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 4:55 PM Felix Kuehling wrote: > > > > > > > > On 2024-08-12 11:00, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > As some of you have noticed, there's a TON of failure messages being > > > > > sent out for AMD gpu driver commits that are tagged for stable > > > > > backports. In short, you all are doing something really wrong with how > > > > > you are tagging these. > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > > > I got notifications about one KFD patch failing to apply on six branches > > > > (6.10, 6.6, 6.1, 5.15, 5.10 and 5.4). The funny thing is, that you > > > > already applied this patch on two branches back in May. The emails had a > > > > suspicious looking date in the header (Sep 17, 2001). I wonder if there > > > > was some date glitch that caused a whole bunch of patches to be re-sent > > > > to stable somehow: > > > > > > I think the crux of the problem is that sometimes patches go into > > > -next with stable tags and they end getting taken into -fixes as well > > > so after the merge window they end up getting picked up for stable > > > again. Going forward, if they land in -next, I'll cherry-pick -x the > > > changes into -fixes so there is better traceability. > > > > Please do so, and also work to not have duplicate commits like this in > > different branches. Git can handle merges quite well, please use it. > > > > If this shows up again in the next -rc1 merge window without any > > changes, I'll have to just blackhole all amd drm patches going forward > > until you all tell me you have fixed your development process. > > Just a heads up, you will see some of these when the 6.12 merge window > due to what is currently in -next and the fixes that went into 6.11, > but going forward we have updated our process and it should be better. Can you give me a list of the git ids that I should be ignoring for 6.12-rc1? Otherwise again, it's a huge waste of time on my side trying to sift through them and figure out if the rejection is real or not... thanks, greg k-h