Commit 8cda4c3a authored May 14, 2015 by Luke Dashjr Committed by Jonathan Corbet May 14, 2015

SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable



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 <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

parent 8547aa13

Documentation/SubmittingPatches

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		@@ -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