Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755395Ab0DALYX (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:24:23 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:44785 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755356Ab0DALX6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:23:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4BB4823F.7040408@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:23:43 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090825 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: w@1wt.eu, gregkh@suse.de, david@fromorbit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable-review@kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [Stable-review] 4 stable kernel review cycles starting References: <20100331215332.GH7671@dastard> <20100331224755.GA23284@suse.de> <20100401044048.GD16238@1wt.eu> <20100401.002622.179174704.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20100401.002622.179174704.davem@davemloft.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: 1005 Lines: 25 David Miller wrote: > From: Willy Tarreau > Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 06:40:48 +0200 > >> For this reason, IMHO it helps when submitters can indicate in each >> patch the mainline equivalent ID, or alternatively that it's pointless >> to look for it because the fix is much different. > > I put this at the top of every networking/ide/sparc commit message > for -stable submissions I make. > > In fact I thought that was a requirement for -stable submissions? It is a documented requirement, perhaps not very clearly worded in The Submitter's Guide To Stable... http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=46cdf871d9970b9252469531f9efd4a17243bb0b -- 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/