On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 09:35:54AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello Bjorn, > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:23:17 -0600 > Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Lorenzo, I assume you'll take both of these, so for both patches, > > > > Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks! > > > Maybe we should add a stable tag (v4.20+)? > > Both patches have a Fixes: tag, so they should be automatically be > backported to the applicable stable kernels. From > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. > > A Fixes: tag indicates that the patch fixes an issue in a previous > commit. It is used to make it easy to determine where a bug > originated, which can help review a bug fix. This tag also assists > the stable kernel team in determining which stable kernel versions > should receive your fix. This is the preferred method for indicating > a bug fixed by the patch. See :ref:`describe_changes` for more > details. > > Isn't that sufficient ? Adding a CC: stable won't hurt so that it is certain it will get stable kernels attention, that's what I will do. Thanks, Lorenzo
