[Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

[Guenter Roeck]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:04:28PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 13:19 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > That seems to be a bit drastic. It is quite useful to have the tag,
> > but maybe it should only be added by the maintainer and not in the initial
> > patch submission. This would ensure that the maintainer(s) made the decision.
> > If the original patch submitter thinks that the patch is stable material,
> > that information could be added in the comments section.
> 
> In the case where a maintainer applies a patch with 'git am', surely
> they can *see* that it's cc:stable?
> 
If that maintainer is careful, yes. But that isn't the point or idea. The
difference is that the maintainer would have to make an active decision
to add the cc:stable tag vs. just going along with it.

Guenter