On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:42:09AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 05:30:42AM -0400, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > <formletter> > > > > > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > > > stable kernel tree. Please read > > > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly. > > > > > > </formletter> > > > > > > I'll not send this out for the other 6 patches that also do not > > > follow the proper format, as I'm sure you would get bored reading > > > them. > > > > None of these patches exist upstream yet so it will take some time > > until any of this can touch -stable. You can ignore it safely for > > now. > > > > Mike: please add proposed stable Cc: tags in the patch only, never > > send it out to the stable email address itself!! > > Well, with the Cc: tag git-send-email will Cc it automatically if not > done by the user explicitly. And that's fine, I don't object to that at all, and it makes life easier for me as I know it is coming eventually, and I try to watch out for it in case the subsystem maintainer forgets to apply it. It's when the Cc: in the signed-off-area is not there that my form-letter kicks in to advise people that they are doing something wrong and that their patch will not get applied to the stable tree this way. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
