Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754444AbZCMKIX (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:08:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752331AbZCMKIN (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:08:13 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53322 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751306AbZCMKIN (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:08:13 -0400 From: Thomas Renninger Organization: SUSE Products GmbH To: Ingo Molnar Subject: How to submit patches that should be considered for stable inclusion also [Was: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: mtrr: ...] Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:08:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27.15-SLE11_BRANCH_20090211224354_e2f9ae3b-default; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Andrew Morton , Andreas Herrmann , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" References: <20090311150027.GK10490@alberich.amd.com> <200903130942.38568.trenn@suse.de> <20090313091812.GB2571@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090313091812.GB2571@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903131108.08619.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 35 On Friday 13 March 2009 10:18:12 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > What does -stable backport tag mean? > > It means such lines added to commit logs: > > Cc: Thanks. That was the bit I liked to know. > > Pointing out specific examples where the backport was realized > when the fix was committed but the tag was not added or outright > lost, and talking to those those maintainers might help. Often > it's a matter of "Oh, cool, did not know that!" realization. Yep. Same for me. > > Interestingly, the second-ever such tag i found in Git history > was for a fix ... from you: I did this more intuitively. If this is how it should be done, this info should be spread to maintainers and repeated some times until really everybody is looking at it. This is not much work. The backporting itself might be, but this could be done by the author or distributions looking out for that tag. At least much less important "easy" fixes shouldn't slip through or take a long time until someone realizes that they are missing. Thanks, Thomas -- 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/