On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Ah, I didn't get that you were trying to suggest that things only go > > into stable if it has both Fixes: *and* Cc: Stable. > > > > If that's the problem you were trying to solve, perhaps we could ask > > Stephen Rothwell if he would be willing to run a script that sends > > nag-o-grams to Maintainers who incluce patches in linux-next that have > > Cc: stable but neither Fixes nor a "# 4.x" appended to the end of the > > Cc: stable line? > > > > Patches adding new PCI/USB/ACPI IDs or DMI quirks are usually accepted > into stable but normally lack "Fixes" tag.
That could easily be made an easily identifiable exception to the rule though. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
