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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
        torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:50:58 -0400
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On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 10:28 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> Yes, this requires you to remember to do this after it hits Linus's
> tree, so you could do like David does for networking, and keep a
> seperate tree to send to me specifically for stable patches.  I think he
> uses patchwork, but I know others use git for this, and that's fine as
> well.

Perhaps just make a separate stable branch, where you cherry-pick the
specific patch using the -x option. Adds a "(cherry picked from
commit ...)". Then you could have some filter that monitors Linus
commits and when a commit matches one of these patches, have it
automatically sent to the stable list.


-- Steve


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