On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:11:40 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Oops, I keep getting confused about this Cc stable thing. Please let me
> >>> know if a v2 dropping the tag is needed.
> >>
> >> No need, Andrew should spot the objection and drop the tag :)
> >
> > I actually add cc:stable tags to selftests fixes!
> >
> > Because why not. Why leave people running known-to-be-buggy code when
> > our backporting processes are so well-functioning and lightweight?
> >
> > I'm not getting the objection?
>
> I thought we were so inconsistent on that that it ends up being a wasted
> effort to even try taking care about stability of selfests in stable trees.
Oh, I try to be vigilant about it.
hp2:/usr/src/mm> git log tools/testing/selftests/mm | grep stable@|wc
44 89 1462
I pass selftests patches through the same brain algorithm as
I do everything else, shrug.
