Re: "Fixes:" vs. "Cc: stable ..."

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Aug 24 2022 - 13:58:39 EST


On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:14:12PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Do changesets that already included the "Fixes:" tag in the commit
> description also need to include the "Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" in
> order to be included in stable?

As per the documentation:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html

You should be putting cc: stable@... on the patch.

But as not all maintainers do, we have to dig through those with Fixes:
in order to actually catch all bugfixes :(

So please, use cc: stable.

thanks,

greg k-h