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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 14:55:36 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix regression that triggers a kernel BUG with CCMP
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@raritan.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
	"<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
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On 6 November 2014 14:50, Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@raritan.com> wrote:
> On 06.11.2014 14:14, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 14:07 +0100, Ronald Wahl wrote:
>>
>>> But there are LTS kernels not maintained by Greg like 3.12 and 3.16. How
>>> about these? If sending patches to stable@kernel org is optional then
>>> it's better to kill that list or silently drop emails send to this list
>>> so no errors are returned for this address.
>>
>>
>> They can pick it up the same way though, no? Actually I think they
>> usually pick it up from Greg's tree anyway :)
>
>
> "Can" and "do" are different things. And you "think" you know what others
> people do but do you really "know" it? Anyway your original comment sounded
> a bit like "avoid sending it to the stable kernel mailinglist otherwise
> unwanted things might happen". In the end this raises the question why that
> stable kernel mailing still list exists or why there is no general rule not
> to send mails to it.
>
> So in the end that currently means that it is not wrong to send mail to
> stable@vger.kernel.org but it is your opinion that it is just not really
> necessary, right?
>

You used to get an autoreply like this when cc'ing stable@ directly

"""
<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>
"""

You are only supposed to send patches to the mailing list if they are
already upstream, i.e., if you know the upstream commit id of the
patch.

-- 
Ard.