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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there some way to suppress Cc email only to stable?
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:35:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150210003501.GI4166@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150210000319.GD15111@kroah.com>

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:03:19AM +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:35:37PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 01:53:50PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> > > >
> > > > Yet I cannot allow git-send-email to actually send email to that address,
> > > > lest I get an automated nastygram in response.
> > > 
> > > Interesting.  Last time this came up, the result seemed to be
> > > different[*].
> > 
> > Hmmm...  Greg KH didn't say there were no automated nastygrams, just
> > that he wasn't worried about it.
> > 
> > I can try it on the next to-be-backported commit and see what happens.
> 
> There are no "automated" nastygrams, it's a "hit this key to send out
> this form message" I have in my email client.
> 
> The only time it triggers a false-positive is when I haven't had enough
> coffee in the morning, which is what happened recently with a patch from
> John Stultz.  If I've sent you that message incorrectly, I'm sorry,
> please let me know.

If that happened, it would have been a while back.

> Again, any patch cc:ed to stable that has a stable mark on it in the
> signed-off-by area is fine, and it helps me to know to watch out for
> things when they hit Linus's tree, or most importantly, to notice if
> they somehow _don't_ hit his tree.  Again, some recent patches from John
> fall in to that category, they didn't make it into Linus's tree when
> they probably should have for 3.19, and now I need to scoop them up
> quickly when they finally do.  If I hadn't been cc:ed on them, I would
> not have noticed that.
> 
> Hope this helps explain things,

Yep, thank you!  I will add the Cc stable lines as appropriate and stop
bothering the git guys.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

      reply	other threads:[~2015-02-10  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-09 19:42 Is there some way to suppress Cc email only to stable? Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-09 20:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-09 21:10   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-09 21:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-09 21:43       ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-09 21:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-09 22:01           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-09 21:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-02-09 23:35   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-10  0:03     ` Greg KH
2015-02-10  0:35       ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]

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