From 8cda4c3ad480a974324532b6dacc67b9c1deb207 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Dashjr Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 18:58:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare submitters time in the future. Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b03a832a08e2..27e7e5edeca8 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this: Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org -into your patch. +into the sign-off area of your patch (note, NOT an email recipient). You +should also read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in addition to this +file. Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees. The networking