From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965088AbbENS6H (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 14:58:07 -0400 Received: from zinan.dashjr.org ([192.3.11.21]:53769 "EHLO zinan.dashjr.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753373AbbENS6F (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 14:58:05 -0400 From: Luke Dashjr To: Jonathan Corbet Subject: [PATCHv2] SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 18:58:01 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.14.41-gentoo; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: trivial@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <201505140006.52131.luke@dashjr.org> <20150514135333.76b25cf6@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20150514135333.76b25cf6@lwn.net> X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: E463 A93F 5F31 17EE DE6C 7316 BD02 9424 21F4 889F X-PGP-Key-ID: BD02942421F4889F X-PGP-Keyserver: hkp://pgp.mit.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201505141858.02323.luke@dashjr.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare submitters time in the future. Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b03a832..27e7e5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this: Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org -into your patch. +into the sign-off area of your patch (note, NOT an email recipient). You +should also read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in addition to this +file. Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees. The networking -- 2.0.5