From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Mack Subject: Re: submitting patch: specify destination kernel version(s) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:50:36 +0200 Message-ID: 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 mail-pz0-f43.google.com (mail-pz0-f43.google.com [209.85.210.43]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3F4103961 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:50:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by pzk1 with SMTP id 1so4843046pzk.2 for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:50:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1322a11922c.1088573675407063638.-3372964620296301533@zoho.com> 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: Torsten Schenk Cc: Greg KH , alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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? Daniel