On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:11:40 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" david@kernel.org wrote:
Oops, I keep getting confused about this Cc stable thing. Please let me know if a v2 dropping the tag is needed.
No need, Andrew should spot the objection and drop the tag :)
I actually add cc:stable tags to selftests fixes!
Because why not. Why leave people running known-to-be-buggy code when our backporting processes are so well-functioning and lightweight?
I'm not getting the objection?
I thought we were so inconsistent on that that it ends up being a wasted effort to even try taking care about stability of selfests in stable trees.
Oh, I try to be vigilant about it.
hp2:/usr/src/mm> git log tools/testing/selftests/mm | grep stable@|wc 44 89 1462
I pass selftests patches through the same brain algorithm as I do everything else, shrug.