On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 04:11:00PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
Hi,
This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman. You have sent him a patch that has triggered this response. He used to manually respond to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was created. Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux kernel tree.
You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s) as indicated below:
- You have marked a patch with a "Fixes:" tag for a commit that is in an older released kernel, yet you do not have a cc: stable line in the signed-off-by area at all, which means that the patch will not be applied to any older kernel releases. To properly fix this, please follow the documented rules in the Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst file for how to resolve this.
If you wish to discuss this problem further, or you have questions about how to resolve this issue, please feel free to respond to this email and Greg will reply once he has dug out from the pending patches received from other developers.
Like Johan said, this doesn't really belong in stable because it doesn't affect users. It's mostly about correctness and static analysis.
The linux-media CI system has also started complaining if we don't add a stable tag and it suggests that the correct thing is to add:
Cc: stable+noautosel@kernel.org # reason goes here, and must be present
Do we really have to do that? Applying it to stable doesn't cause a problem, it's just not necessary.
regards, dan carpenter