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On 10/11/22 11:24 AM, Greg KH wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 10:05:38AM -0700, Bhatnagar, Rishabh wrote:
>> On 10/10/22 11:08 PM, hch@lst.de wrote:
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>>> The patch already made it to Linux 6.0, so I'm not sure what we need
>>> to review again.
>> Oh, I never got any email that this was being picked up so sent it again.
>> Anyways thanks for taking it.
>> We need this patch for 5.10/5.15 stable kernels as well. I can send backport
>> patches to stable tree
>> maintainers unless there is a way for you to mark it so that its
>> automatically picked for stable trees.
> <formletter>
>
> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> stable kernel tree.  Please read:
>      https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> for how to do this properly.
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> </formletter>

Since the original patch doesn't contain the CC:stable@vger.kernel.org, 
using option 2
makes sense as there is no special handling required to apply this for 
5.10/5.15.