On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:54:04 +0100 Greg KH greg@kroah.com wrote:
Relying only on the Fixes: tag to get things picked up by stable is a sure way to get it on the "slow, and maybe eventually, hopefully, it might make it into stable" path :)
I've been numbed by all the AUTOSEL patches, where I tend to think Fixes is becoming enough. That said, this particular patch, I thought was going in the same release as what it fixed, which is why I never added stable to it. :-/
I have over 1000 patches right now in that "bucket" that need to be checked to see if they are relevant for stable backporting, just since 5.4 was released. I have automated a lot of it, but still, they require manual review.
I'll go queue this up now, as it's simplest just to ask us to take it after it hits Linus's tree :)
Again, I thought the AUTOSEL would pick it up, as it seems to pick other patches I don't intend on going to stable quickly ;-)
-- Steve