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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: RT2870 failure in kernel 4.12.8
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Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> Should the patch to wireless-drivers be annotated with a Stable reference so
>> that it is added to 4.12 and 4.13?
>
> According to Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt networking patches
> should not be marked cc:stable, instead a decent commit log should
> be written describing a bugfix. Which I believe it is done for
> this patch.

But that's for net and net-next trees, not for wireless trees. With
wireless patches we use "Cc: stable@..." references.

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Kalle Valo