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Commit 959fb1c5 authored by Stefan Richter's avatar Stefan Richter Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Documentation: -stable rules: upstream commit ID requirement reworded 



It is a hard requirement to include the upstream commit ID in the
changelog of a -stable submission, not just a courtesy to the stable
team.  This concerns only mail submission though, which is no longer
the only way into stable.  (Also, fix a double "the".)

Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent c81eddb0

Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

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@@ -18,16 +18,15 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the 
 - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,

   whitespace cleanups, etc).

 - It must follow the Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules.

 - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree.  Quote the

   respective commit ID in Linus' tree in your patch submission to -stable.

 - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream).





Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:



 - Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to

   stable@kernel.org.

 - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the

   the tag

   stable@kernel.org.  You must note the upstream commit ID in the changelog

   of your submission.

 - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag

     Cc: stable@kernel.org

   in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to

   the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author