Re: [PATCH] EDAC/i10nm: Fix mdev reference leak in i10nm_get_ddr_munits()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 07:59:56AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> The "Fixes:" tag is a matter of fact. The "Cc: stable" is just an
> opinion.

Are you being serious here?

"CC: stable" is a matter of opinion?!?!

Tony, where are you getting this from? Please point me to the docs where we
state that, please, because I have never read it before.

Maybe I have missed that memo, who knows?

All I know is that stable folks appreciate and more or less rely on CC:stable
from the patch committers so that they can know to pick up the patch quick. So
CC:stable is actually a statement: this patch should go to stable.

Fixes: is just a tag that shows which commit it fixes.
 
> An extreme example would be a patch that fixes a spelling error in a
> comment posted on a Friday before Linus is expected to tag a "final"
> release in a cycle. A "Cc: stable" on that patch shouldn't trigger

A patch like that should *NEVER* get CC:stable.

> But if you want to add this patch to edac-urgent, then go ahead.

I want us to agree on the nomenclature so that there are no misunderstandings.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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