Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fsverity: Explicitly require FMODE_READ to retrieve hashes" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2026 at 04:14:47PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> So I feel we have had the Cc discussion quite a few times now. We really have
> to limit how many mails end up going out: this last release had thousands of
> mails which took hours to send. Adding more lists will simply kill the mail
> server and will harm everyone.
> 
> We have solutions for that!
> 
> See Konstantin's writeup[1] about lei with filters like dfn: or dfhh:.
> 
> We're not going to change this on our end: the kernel.org folks will complain,
> mails will take days, and people will be grumpy at us.
> 
> If this is really not something you can work around, then we can figure out a
> filter to exclude your patches so that all of us can continue being happy going
> forward.
> 
> 
> [1] https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/lore-lei-part-1-getting-started

I've already started to use lei to work around this issue with the
stable process, but everyone else will as well, which seems unlikely to
work well.  This also effectively means that subsystem mailing lists are
deprecated, as some of the development process is happening off-list.

- Eric