On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 07:41:31PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
Well, probably more common is that prerequisites are in the same patchset, and the prerequisites are tagged for stable too. Whereas AUTOSEL often just picks patch X of N. Also, developers and maintainers who tag patches for stable are probably more likely to help with the stable process in general and make sure patches are backported correctly...
Anyway, the point is, AUTOSEL needs to be fixed to stop inappropriately cherry-picking patch X of N so often.
... and AUTOSEL strikes again, with the 6.1 and 6.2 kernels currently crashing whenever a block device is removed, due to patches 1 and 3 of a 3-patch series being AUTOSEL'ed (on the same day I started this discussion, no less):
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/CAOCAAm4reGhz400DSVrh0BetYD3Ljr2CZen7_3D...
Oh sorry, ignore this, it's just an anecdotal example.
- Eric