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authorLuke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>2015-05-14 18:58:01 +0000
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2015-05-14 15:34:52 -0400
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SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable
I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare submitters time in the future. Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this:
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
-into your patch.
+into the sign-off area of your patch (note, NOT an email recipient). You
+should also read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in addition to this
+file.
Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own
conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees. The networking