Re: patches sent up to 6.13-rc1 that shouldn't be backported

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

On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 06:02:45AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> I've been getting emails from your bots...
> 
> I sent two pulls to Linus for 6.13-rc1:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4a39ac5b7d62679c07a3e3d12b0f6982377d8a7d
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34e1a5d43c5deec563b94f3330b690dde9d1de53
> 
> In these, I'm not sure there's actually much valid stable material. I
> didn't mark anything as Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, I don't think.
> 
> As such, can you make sure none of those get backported?
> 
> Alternatively, if you do have reason to want to pick some of these,
> can you be clear with what and why, and actually carefully decide
> which ones and which dependencies are required as such in a
> non-automated way?

They say so directly in the commit, i.e.:
	Stable-dep-of: 6eda706a535c ("selftests: vDSO: fix the way vDSO functions are called for powerpc")

in each one.  So this seem to be needed to fix up the powerpc stuff.

I'll drop them all if you feel these should not be applied.

thanks,

greg k-h