On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > > I couldn't remember whether the canonical marking is stable@xxxxxxxxxx > > or stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, so I went looking, and discovered that it > > wasn't mentioned in the kernel sources. You can find mention of it in > > Greg K-H's blog, but not everyone would necessarily find this blog > > entry. > > It's documented in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. > I'm wondering if it would be helpful to the stable maintainers if we explicitly asked that patches including "Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" also include the version number of the earliest version that the change should be backported to? Andrew and others do this quite often with Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [3.2+] so perhaps such a convention should be added to the documentation? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
