Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758264AbYHALZv (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:25:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757349AbYHALZm (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:25:42 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:43277 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757709AbYHALZl (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:25:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4892F27F.3020300@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:24:47 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Corbet CC: LKML , Andrew Morton , Amanda McPherson , Jiri Kosina , Roland Dreier , Alex Chiang , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jochen_Vo=DF?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] A development process document, V2 (diff from V1) References: <20080731111443.2179bf4c@bike.lwn.net> <20080731111709.488b9fa7@bike.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20080731111709.488b9fa7@bike.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1405 Lines: 38 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > --- a/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting > +++ b/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting ... > @@ -229,12 +235,18 @@ copies should go to: ... > - Send a copy to the relevant mailing list, or, if nothing else applies, > the linux-kernel list. > > + - If you are fixing a bug, think about whether the fix should go into the > + next stable update. If so, stable@kernel.org should get a copy of the > + patch. Also add a "Cc: stable@kernel.org" to the tags within the patch ...patch after it or an equivalent was committed to Linus's tree. Quote the commit ID in your stable submission. Alternatively, add a "Cc: stable@... > + itself; that will cause the stable team to get a notification when your > + fix goes into the mainline. Or IMO preferable: - If you are fixing a bug, think about whether the fix should go into the next stable update. If so, read ../stable_kernel_rules.txt. (I missed the part of the thread where the addition of the -stable bullet point was suggested, hence I may be saying something redundant here...) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- =--- ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/