Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Coping with the new-developer flood

Hi Ted, Dan, Konstantin,

On 07/08/2026 05:23, Theodore Tso wrote:
> There are some few exceptions, where a fix can't be easily backported
> to the LTS branch, and so a different way of fixing a particular
> serious patch needs to be applied to the LTS branch.  But normally
> this will be explicitly stated in the commit description, but we don't
> do that in a structured way, so it might be hard for a non-LLM bot to
> figure this out.
Good point, but instead of looking at the patch description, it might be
enough to look at the header: an exception could be added for patches
sent to the stable ML with a version in the prefix.

But back to the idea of checking if the patch can apply: it might not be
easy to deal with all the different trees and branches. There might be
some dependences that are still in review, or applied somewhere but not
in linux-next yet, or conflicts with linux-next, etc. Plus note that
Sashiko will generally complain if it cannot find where to apply it.

Cheers,
Matt
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