From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755882Ab1IPSkG (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:40:06 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:59387 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754300Ab1IPSkF (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:40:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:39:21 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Josh Boyer Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, willy@meta-x.org, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: stable patch queues and submission Message-ID: <20110916183921.GB16415@suse.de> References: <20110916181307.GW10700@zod.bos.redhat.com> <20110916182350.GA7315@suse.de> <20110916183113.GY10700@zod.bos.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110916183113.GY10700@zod.bos.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:31:13PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:23:50PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > With kernel.org being down, the stable@kernel.org list is no longer > > > working. This leaves me wondering if we should send patches directly to > > > the various stable tree maintainers with [stable] in the prefix and > > > linux-kernel CC'd, or if the stable queues are even being maintained > > > during the outage. > > > > No, please do not, unless you need something "special", and even then, > > please cc: lkml and the developers so it's not lost. > > Would "special" include patches that are backported for longterm > releases? Yes. greg k-h