On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:07:24AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 08:47 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Sorry, but I don't accept pull requests. I need patches in email form, > > as described in the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. Please > > feel free to send them from your git tree that way. > > Ah, I somehow missed that txt when googling about the stable kernel. > Thanks for pointing it out. > > > That seems like a lot of backporting for a single fix, but I'll be glad > > to review them when you send them. > > This is something that is not quite clear to me: > > Should I strive for keeping the patches for stable as close as possible > to the ones in mainline, and thus possibly being forced to take other > extra patches with the actual fix as I did here Yes. If that is what is happening here, that's fine, just tell me. > or > > should I just rather cook up a new patch which just fixes the problem > without caring about any cleanups etc. that are in the mainline, and > thus possibly creating a rather different patch compared to mainline's > version? No, the first one. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
