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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 19:45:25 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH v2] msm: timer: compensate for timer shift in
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On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:15:41PM -0700, Jeff Ohlstein wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 04:27:16PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> >> I don't think this patch was intended for stable in the first place.
> >> Jeff, this is a fix for 3.0-rcx, right?
> > 
> > Then why was it sent to stable@kernel.org?
> > 
> > confused,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> 
> Sorry, this was indeed intended for stable. I will include the Cc: tag
> in future patches stable. However, since this was already picked up in
> Linus's tree, how should I proceed to get it into stable?

Take a look at Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this
(hint, send the git commit id to stable@kernel.org and let us know what
kernels you want it applied to.)

greg k-h