Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756840Ab2LAAcG (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:32:06 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:49613 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752020Ab2LAAcE (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:32:04 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 5sm9zgguWVS8eg6MAkLIY3ra7byyKlfDTPLk8qJkdU32 1354321922 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:32:01 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Anthony Foiani Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] v3.0.x: mtd: check partition count not partition array pointer Message-ID: <20121201003201.GA18885@kroah.com> References: <20121129213838.GA20660@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Length: 990 Lines: 26 On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Anthony Foiani wrote: > Greg KH writes: > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > > stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > > for how to do this properly. > > My checklist against stable_kernel_rules.txt is below. > > I could only find two reasons why you are saying this is incorrect: > > 1. There is no matching upstream commit; or This is an obvious one, it needs to be upstream first. Or if not, a whole lot of explaination saying that you know it isn't, and why it isn't, and why it isn't applicable there, including agreement from the subsystem maintainers saying that they agree with you. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/