Re: 5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:01:04AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Because cc: stable came first, and for some reason people think that it
> > is all that is necessary to get patches committed to the stable tree,
> > despite it never being documented or that way.  I have to correct
> > someone about this about 2x a month on the stable@vger list.
> 
> For a developer, it's much easier to not care about "Cc: stable"
> at all, because as soon as you add a "Cc: stable" to a patch, or CC
> stable, someone will compain ;-)  Much easier to just add a Fixes: tag,
> and know it will be backported to trees that have the "buggy" commit.

What sort of complaints have you gotten?  I add "cc: stable" for the
ext4 tree, and I can't say I've gotten any complaints.

     	       	       	   	       - Ted