Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:13:51 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
        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
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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
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