Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933298Ab3GLRVK (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:21:10 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:36993 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932650Ab3GLRVH (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:21:07 -0400 Message-ID: <51E03AEE.5010403@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:20:46 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: "John W. Linville" , "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline References: <20130711214830.611455274@linuxfoundation.org> <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> <20130712025745.GA24086@tuxdriver.com> <20130712033430.GA3798@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20130712033430.GA3798@kroah.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 562 Lines: 13 On the subject of the stable tree: could we get a standard format for requesting post-inclusion elevation of patches to stable status? It isn't all that unusual that the need for -stable is highlighted after a patch has been included in a maintainer's tree, and rebasing to add stable metadata annoys Linus. -hpa -- 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/