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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch.
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:59:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150209235929.GC15111@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1423525163-22145-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:39:23PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> index aee73e7..82c097a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> @@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:
>     in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to
>     the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author
>     or subsystem maintainer.
> + - The kernel versions, to which the patch should be applied, can be
> +   specified in the following format in the sign-off area:
> +
> +     Cc:  <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3.x
> +
> +   The tag has the meaning of:
> +     git cherry-pick <this commit>
> +
> +   For each "-stable" tree starting with the specified version.
> +
>   - If the patch requires other patches as prerequisites which can be
>     cherry-picked, then this can be specified in the following format in
>     the sign-off area:

Nice, I'll queue this up after 3.20-rc1 is out, thanks.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-09 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-09 23:39 [PATCH] stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch David Daney
2015-02-09 23:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-03-25 14:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-26 16:45   ` David Daney
2015-03-26  8:35 Hillf Danton
2015-03-26 16:48 ` David Daney

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