On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 17:13 -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > If it's not necessary, fine. But we should still delete what is > currently documented in stable_kernel_rules and was introduced in > 8e9b9362266d, because it doesn't describe current practice.
It definitely doesn't seem to describe current practice. It looks like it got applied because the commit description bears a somewhat strange relation to the actual text that was added: The commit talks about the original script that used to forward to stable (although it got me and hpa confused) which seems to refer to a tiny deletion and the rest is adding an Ingo one off proposal for dependencies. For the record: Greg runs his own script now and I'm not involved. Current process (at least from the SCSI centric view) is that if we screw up and forward a commit with missing dependencies to stable via a cc: tag, it won't apply and Greg tells us to fix it, which we do. That seems to be an adequately functional process for the odd times we run into this. James
