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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Torsten Schenk <torsten.schenk@zoho.com>
Cc: alsa-devel <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: submitting patch: specify destination kernel version(s)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:57:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110902135702.GA10175@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322a11922c.1088573675407063638.-3372964620296301533@zoho.com>

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:16:27PM +0200, Torsten Schenk wrote:

Please fix your mailer to word wrap within paragraphs.

> I'm currently preparing a patch for the kernel, I want it to be included from 3.0 on, but not in versions before. I once got a hint to put

> Cc: stable@kernel.org

> but that seems not to do the trick. How could it be achieved, that the patch only appears in 3.0 (and later)?

What's the actual patch?  Cc stable is the way to get patches picked up
for the stable kernel, if you want to limit the backports putting a note
in the changelog is probably sensible.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-02 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-02 12:16 submitting patch: specify destination kernel version(s) Torsten Schenk
2011-09-02 12:50 ` Daniel Mack
2011-09-02 13:57   ` Greg KH
2011-09-02 13:57 ` Mark Brown [this message]

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