From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: submitting patch: specify destination kernel version(s) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 06:57:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20110902135735.GA28815@kroah.com> References: <1322a11922c.1088573675407063638.-3372964620296301533@zoho.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2AA24420 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 02:19:58 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Daniel Mack Cc: alsa-devel , Torsten Schenk List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:50:36PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Torsten Schenk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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)? > > > > This is not really officially documented, but there seems to be a > general agreement that this line should do what you want: > > Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0+] > > At least, other patches were submitted that way. Greg, is that correct? Yes, that is correct. Please see Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for the details. greg k-h