From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark Einon <mark.einon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] staging: et131x: Fix errors caused by
 phydev->addr accesses before initialisation
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:35:29 +0100
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:39:59PM +0800, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:32:55AM +0300, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> > Do you have this hardware ? And did you test this ?
> 
> Mark is the maintainer of this driver, I assume he has the hardware, if
> not, I don't care, I trust him :)
> 

Hi there,

:) Yes, all tested on hardware.

> > How can you cc stable without an Tested by somebody else ?
> 
> Since when is a tested-by a requirement for a stable@ marking?  Please
> read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for the details.

As Greg says, easily if you follow those rules.

Cheers,

Mark