Regressions

Thanks for taking the time to look at my example. In this case you are probably correct, a very intelligent but overworked human made a mistake; happens to us all (and I certainly do appreciate your work and Greg KH's too). It is certainly true that your automatic process will backport many fixes that humans would have missed. But it is also true that backporting more patches will cause more regressions. This is true whether the backporting is automatic or not. It appears that you are already familiar with this risk: https://lwn.net/Articles/692866/

So here's an idea for your next project. Track all the regressions introduced by -stable patches and see if you can use machine learning to prevent future regressions. Now *that* would be awesome.