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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:28:36AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:20:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> After it's in Linus's tree, just send the git id of the patch to
> stable@vger.kernel.org, along with what stable tree(s) you want to see
> the patch backported to.
> 
> Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt should be pretty explicit about
> how to do this, but if not, patches to it are always welcome.

FWIW, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt currently says that you
should send the patch.  I checked to see whether sending the git id
was sufficient, and upon reading stable_kernel_rules.txt, decided to
simply run git format-patch/git send-email of the commits in mainline.
Apparently no one seemed to mind....

					- Ted
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