From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; t=1794086795; b=ElU+YKUnuSDJCiflXILr7syMMlWjrdxIZheFYKJNsxXoG6m8hppySDCY8tr0NAYjTC9P iRJhpISvyH5mzphp6MUySi6u9zHE/H3yabLccnnZ1uk549A2Qav6QJNajVgUjOigBTLSI 5mxiyeLXo+a+glamVaveIdyyMQXrrlwTVQsxNgPOnJncvMtehk45aKK2QZ0Ftv0DFs5s4 NXsP3xlatkd3WXQyIDTAZYHQKRZTQpjCaeFPuvozuW7FEqyf4IT/+9ZczMrdWXc3d+LWJ XRYRfSJXOoFCINMF/hcebEs0JFWB7lQNwUJbdxuWG3hLqO4ZQQm/5Kta9bvKXuNR90Q== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1794086795; h=Received:DKIM-Signature:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID: References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; bh=69MWQh9fCfHjWDR1xs54PIi6M8hjigsYHAcOsJGTTgI=; b=5PTcfSEoCTz7413XinXQMr1nrGbZN065CXbGe1fQOy3yzTR3KnNmP9B58OHQSRAp5VAC WPFhETUompJh9eEucneFkRFaN91nZ6RYUsKoRBLbevzG3ssexyg5FiLOAf72Gk46h/1Y3 FiFyoEioM6mO2Gx68hPIa/+ZhwLbTVpbtPmeCQs3WYWpMsyc/9JdG7f0bYmOfcsRwc1oc yRfRqESXv5qfgOhYxnwD1ktFblntusCc96uOCg8wYwWHshxqSpmT4msNRyljQR+QQUq+3 SXCOmvpNKPzXjN9sypDbEWimy+y4vnvZCJ10W+v2wBO40OK3Sh9IpMfumzjoa7p7ERQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=ndlSdUQs; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 180E1606A326 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2026 21:26:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key, unprotected) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=ndlSdUQs Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 832711F0089F; Sat, 7 Nov 2026 21:26:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1794086794; bh=69MWQh9fCfHjWDR1xs54PIi6M8hjigsYHAcOsJGTTgI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=ndlSdUQs7oWac0H8X0Bvsj9nKrqZ1RpCcLV8sncyP9XeYChP47shNtXJYhf+cwM8b 20eRA9cTITUAxFObwhJ7UaeQagbixj0dYE/AMY140g8eR6aBW7JM9whDIE/E/+UItf qs9Q4+yuIL2okY0m7GCp1yXuutrlcHZ7bs10XGRZqWeaFyVhRCHTRAqpR+scj2UcM/ YR6JyKx9BZ0QffAvxS7NwM/YgIEayAx9OIrt/H10rx8vO93vbo7ebm94pizb0eU43h 9EGox5iYJnDLwcHfRV7oexSyfruGzOgN8ZWcIvBkuCcLBeY59uGHiJalbpima4gVv7 tItqxf0pD3NHA== Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 13:26:33 -0800 From: Eric Biggers To: Sasha Levin Cc: aalbersh@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fsverity: Explicitly require FMODE_READ to retrieve hashes" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree Message-ID: <20261107212633.GA137269@quark> References: <20261107051544-failed-6.18-1acb4fd2d011@kernel.org> <20261107190447.GA6049@quark> X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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