From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757580Ab1GASd1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:33:27 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:43045 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757536Ab1GASdX (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:33:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 20:33:14 +0200 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Linus Torvalds , Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Ferre , Russell King Subject: Re: AT91: Fix pull requset Message-ID: <20110701183313.GV11559@pengutronix.de> References: <20110701065411.GD14408@game.jcrosoft.org> <201107011709.40359.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <201107011709.40359.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 05:09:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 01 July 2011, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > > HI Linus, Russell, Arnd > For every bug fix you commit, please check if it applies to older > kernels as well, and mark with 'Cc: stable@kernel.org' if so. Do you > want to update the changelog and send another pull request? Or alternatively (i.e. if you don't want to rewrite your tree) just writing to stable@kernel.org and indicating the upstream commit ids is usually OK, too. The other extreme is to point out the affected versions, e.g. by using Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.xy+] Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |