On 10/11/26 00:37, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2026 20:14:20 -0700 Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anything with Fixes: will end up in stable, so I just leave off the >> stable CC these days. > > -stable maintainers have been asked to Not Do That for mm patches. > Other subsystems are doing the same. > > I don't know how they determine whether something is an mm patch. A > patch which covers do-do-that and dont-do-that parts of the tree is > likely to be mishandled. > > So yeah, add that cc:stable to reduce the possibility of mistakes.
There's also this from the list of pain points at https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/ Kroah-Hartman: subsystems that do not add CC: [email protected] tags to patches, but which still expect the stable team to pick up the important fixes anyway. The stable maintainers are overwhelmed as it is and are not doing that.
