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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Update stable tree documentation
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:58:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225321092-21933-4-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081029223824.GB21657@kroah.com>

From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Update the documentation for the stable tree rules to reflect
that device IDs and quirks are also suitable for -stable
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
index 4cfc788..a452227 100644
--- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
    marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real
    security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue.  In short, something
    critical.
+ - New device IDs and quirks are also accepted.
  - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how the
    race can be exploited is also provided.
  - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
-- 
1.6.0.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-29 22:38 [GIT PATCH] driver core fixes for your 2.6-git tree Greg KH
2008-10-29 22:58 ` [PATCH 1/6] Document kernel taint flags properly Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-10-29 22:58 ` [PATCH 2/6] driver core: drivers/base/sys.c: update comments Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-10-29 22:58 ` [PATCH 3/6] sysfs: Fix return values for sysdev_store_{ulong,int} Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-10-29 22:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2008-10-29 22:58 ` [PATCH 5/6] HOWTO: Sync patch for jp_JP/HOWTO Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-10-29 22:58 ` [PATCH 6/6] Driver core: fix 'dynamic_debug' cmd line parameter Greg Kroah-Hartman

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