On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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Ah, I didn't get that you were trying to suggest that things only go 
into stable if it has both Fixes: *and* Cc: Stable.

If that's the problem you were trying to solve, perhaps we could ask
Stephen Rothwell if he would be willing to run a script that sends
nag-o-grams to Maintainers who incluce patches in linux-next that have
Cc: stable but neither Fixes nor a "# 4.x" appended to the end of the
Cc: stable line?

Patches adding new PCI/USB/ACPI IDs or DMI quirks are usually accepted
into stable but normally lack "Fixes" tag.

That could easily be made an easily identifiable exception to the rule 
though.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs