Re: [stable] Fwd: [PATCH] PCI: Limit VPD length for Broadcom 5708S

Re: [stable] Fwd: [PATCH] PCI: Limit VPD length for Broadcom 5708S

[Jesse Barnes]

On Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:48 pm Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:19:24PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > Just applied this to my for-linus branch.  It's a crash fixer so it
> > should probably go into -stable too.
>
> As per Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, an easy way to do this
> automatically is:
> 	- If the stable@kernel.org address is added to a patch, when it
> 	  goes into Linus's tree it will automatically be emailed to the
> 	  stable team.
>
> So just add "Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>" to the signed-off-by area
> and we will know to apply it when Linus picks it up.  Otherwise we have
> to hunt through the tree, which is a pain at times :)

Oh hey there's even a doc that mentions that, neat. :)

Thanks,
Jesse