Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965301Ab3GLSNv (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:13:51 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f44.google.com ([209.85.220.44]:37553 "EHLO mail-pa0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965191Ab3GLSNu (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:13:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:13:51 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "H. Peter Anvin" , "John W. Linville" , 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 Message-ID: <20130712181351.GB6689@roeck-us.net> References: <20130711214830.611455274@linuxfoundation.org> <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> <20130712025745.GA24086@tuxdriver.com> <20130712033430.GA3798@kroah.com> <51E03AEE.5010403@zytor.com> <20130712172836.GA7627@kroah.com> <20130712175718.GA342@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130712175718.GA342@thunk.org> 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: 1548 Lines: 31 On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 01:57:18PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > 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.... > That is what I do as well, with an added explicit reference to the upstream git id in the commit log. Guenter -- 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/