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Date:   Tue, 4 Dec 2018 08:41:09 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com>
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 08:39:16AM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> On 02.12.18 16:02, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Sasha,
> > 
> > Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2018, 15:35:43 CET schrieb Sasha Levin:
> > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:50:33AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > > > Now queued up for 4.14.y, thanks.
> > > > > 
> > > > > can you *please* slow a little down?
> > > > 
> > > > True. It will really help if you can have some sort of fixed schedule
> > > > for stable release, like maybe stablerc is ready on Thursday or Friday
> > > > and release the stable on Monday. Having a weekend in stablerc will be
> > > > helpful for people like me who only get the time in weekends for
> > > > upstream or stable kernel.
> > > 
> > > Any sort of schedule will never work for everyone (for example, if it's
> > > part of your paid job - you don't necessarily want to review stuff over
> > > the weekend).
> > 
> > a schedule is not needed, but please give maintainers at least a chance
> > to react on stable inclusion request.
> > In this case Martin asked for inclusion on Monday and the patch was applied
> > two days later.
> 
> True, especially when the maintainer is asked a question as part of the
> patch.
> 
> I've already had the feeling that we'd need the other patch too, but in this
> case at least I should have searched for Fixes tags.
> 
> Greg, how about reminding people of Fixes tags in
> Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst ?

Reminding people how?  Patches to that file are always gladly accepted :)

thanks,

greg k-h