On Sun, Jul 05, 2026 at 11:06:49AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2026 05:06:27 -0400 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> -stable maintainers have been asked not to do that - only backport
> patches which have an explicit cc:stable.
Out of curiousity, is this specific to -mm?
Not sure. I have vague memories of being told "we added MM to the
list", but perhaps I made that up.
Sasha, it MM the only subsystem which requires explicit cc:stable
for patches to be backported?
There are a few more. We maintain the list here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ignore_list
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Thanks,
Sasha
