From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754672Ab2D0VbN (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:31:13 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aob106.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.76]:55404 "EHLO na3sys009aog106.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753562Ab2D0VbL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:31:11 -0400 From: Kevin Hilman To: "DebBarma\, Tarun Kanti" Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , "Shilimkar\, Santosh" , Janusz Krzysztofik , Tony Lindgren , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, grant.likely@secretlab.ca, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Charulatha V Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 11/25] gpio/omap: cleanup omap_gpio_mod_init function Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. References: <1328203851-20435-1-git-send-email-tarun.kanti@ti.com> <1328203851-20435-12-git-send-email-tarun.kanti@ti.com> <13629551.hP3ZV1ajDo@vclass> <20120424160447.GI3739@atomide.com> <20120425134508.GE25053@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:31:11 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Tarun Kanti DebBarma's message of "Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:43:57 +0530") Message-ID: <87pqaszwtc.fsf@ti.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "DebBarma, Tarun Kanti" writes: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: [...] >> Correction. >> >> Don't email your patch in any way to the stable folk _before_ it has been >> taken into Linus' tree.  However, you _may_ add in the patch attributations >> a Cc: tag if you want the stable folk to >> automatically pick up your patch when it _does_ end up in Linus' tree. >> But... make sure that git send-email or whatever doesn't automatically >> add that to the recipients for the emailed patch. >> >> If you send the stable people a patch before its in mainline, you'll get >> a whinge telling you to read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > > Alright, I will add Cc: tag in the patch. If you do that, be sure to use --suppress-cc=bodycc when you send it with git-send-email. Kevin