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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2012-01-23 07:36:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2012-01-24 10:50:22 -0800 |
| commit | 8381b5e88a19b780f19fc52b7dd67f2b05d07dca (patch) | |
| tree | 0658f79aa639380c3034b4f4feaba8e863a8c5ad | |
| parent | 268863f43629ef88763400d0cae4a66c754a0d23 (diff) | |
stable: update documentation to ask for kernel version
It would save me an email round-trip asking which stable tree(s) that a
patch should be applied to, so document that the tree number should be
specified in the email request.
Reported-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt index 21fd05c28e7..f0ab5cf28fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt +++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt @@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree: - Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to stable@vger.kernel.org. You must note the upstream commit ID in the - changelog of your submission. + changelog of your submission, as well as the kernel version you wish + it to be applied to. - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to |