Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758080Ab0GHRao (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:30:44 -0400 Received: from 0122700014.0.fullrate.dk ([95.166.99.235]:33848 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754192Ab0GHRan (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:30:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4C360B42.8070909@kernel.dk> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:30:42 +0200 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Miklos Szeredi , xiaosuo@gmail.com, tim.gardner@canonical.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] splice fixes References: <4C29D5B9.9040401@kernel.dk> <4C29E1A0.7070601@kernel.dk> <20100707133851.7c805c2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4C35D466.8060007@kernel.dk> <4C35D4CE.6020401@kernel.dk> <20100708102544.2e4697f8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100708102544.2e4697f8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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: 1232 Lines: 36 On 08/07/10 19.25, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:38:22 +0200 Jens Axboe wrote: > >>>> However this: >>>> >>>> commit 4f9078afb4e083e033aafbbfabe729cb3832aa42 >>>> Author: Changli Gao >>>> Date: Tue Jun 29 13:09:18 2010 +0200 >>>> >>>> splice: direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd >>>> >>>> went into mainline without a cc:stable tag. >>> >>> I will send an email to stable@. >> >> BTW, it's not in mainline yet. I know I forgot to mark it as stable, >> but I can't tell them to include it before it's in mainline. > > You could redo the changelog then. But stable@kernel.org is cc'ed on > these emails and they're splendid chaps ;) But then the Linus monster ends up shouting at me, so I'll rather take a little stable abuse :-) What I've done in the past is just send stable@ a list of commits once they are upstream. Less work for them. Best is remembering the stable CC in the commit, but... -- Jens Axboe -- 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/