From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752474AbbCZSTp (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:19:45 -0400 Received: from mail-bn1on0061.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([157.56.110.61]:42144 "EHLO na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751673AbbCZSTn (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:19:43 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 4609 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:19:43 EDT Message-ID: <5514384D.7000609@caviumnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:48:13 -0700 From: David Daney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hillf Danton CC: "'David Daney'" , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch. References: <05d501d0679f$d74552d0$85cff870$@alibaba-inc.com> In-Reply-To: <05d501d0679f$d74552d0$85cff870$@alibaba-inc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [64.2.3.194] X-ClientProxiedBy: SN2PR07CA004.namprd07.prod.outlook.com (10.255.174.21) To BN3PR0701MB1719.namprd07.prod.outlook.com (25.163.39.18) Authentication-Results: alibaba-inc.com; dkim=none (message not signed) header.d=none; X-Microsoft-Antispam: UriScan:;BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;SRVR:BN3PR0701MB1719; X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: BMV:1;SFV:NSPM;SFS:(10009020)(6009001)(51704005)(479174004)(51444003)(24454002)(377454003)(50986999)(65816999)(76176999)(80316001)(83506001)(66066001)(87976001)(122386002)(42186005)(87266999)(47776003)(19580405001)(19580395003)(54356999)(65806001)(65956001)(53416004)(110136001)(46102003)(40100003)(92566002)(2950100001)(50466002)(33656002)(64126003)(77156002)(62966003)(36756003)(23676002);DIR:OUT;SFP:1101;SCL:1;SRVR:BN3PR0701MB1719;H:dl.caveonetworks.com;FPR:;SPF:None;MLV:sfv;LANG:en; X-Microsoft-Antispam-PRVS: X-Exchange-Antispam-Report-Test: UriScan:; X-Exchange-Antispam-Report-CFA-Test: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:(601004)(5002010)(5005006);SRVR:BN3PR0701MB1719;BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;SRVR:BN3PR0701MB1719; X-Forefront-PRVS: 0527DFA348 X-OriginatorOrg: caviumnetworks.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Mar 2015 16:48:17.1492 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-FromEntityHeader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: BN3PR0701MB1719 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/26/2015 01:35 AM, Hillf Danton wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:39:23PM -0800, David Daney wrote: >> From: David Daney >> > Better if it is added in commit message: > how to determine kernel version for a given commit id. > Perhaps. I think that if you wrote and submitted such a patch, the maintainers would probably merge it. David Daney