Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/599] 5.10.110-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 4/5/22 20:24, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 23:08:12 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Here's a thought, if you decide to backport a patch to stable, and you see
> > that there's another commit with a "Fixes" tag to the automatically
> > selected commit. DO NOT BACKPORT IF THE FIXES PATCH FAILS TO GO BACK TOO!
>
> Seriously. This should be the case for *all* backported patches, not just
> the AUTOSEL ones.
>
> Otherwise you are backporting a commit to "stable" that is KNOWN TO BE
> BROKEN!

Agreed.

Guenter