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 <luke-jr+git@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b03a832..86ae82e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this: Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -into your patch. +into the sign-off area of your patch (note, not only as 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 -- 2.0.5 -- 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
