On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 11:12:12AM +0100, Jochen Mades wrote: > Find attached the patch with the new subject and corretced commit message. Greg doesn't accept patches as attachments and during the merge window (which ends today). I've just resubmitted your patch as part of a 2-patch series, together with a patch of mine which goes on top of yours: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/85fa3323ba8c307943969b7343e23f34c3e652ba.1642909284.git.lukas@xxxxxxxxx/ (I sent your patch twice because I botched the Date header the first time around, sorry about that.) Note that you still get patch authorship (and thus credit for the patch) even though I submitted it, due to the From: line at the top of the message body. > > * Add tags for the offending commit: > > > > Fixes: 8d479237727c ("serial: amba-pl011: add RS485 support") > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.15+ > > > > * Be sure to cc the author of the offending commit. > > Sorry I don't know how to do that correctly. Can you please give support/hints? It just means that you need to add the two above-quoted tags to the commit message. The maintainers of stable kernels use them to determine which patches need to be backported to which kernel releases. I've fixed up the commit message of your patch with the missing tags, no problem. And "cc the author of the offending commit" just means that when posting the patch, it is customary to send a copy of the e-mail to the author of the commit you're fixing, which is Lino in this case, as he authored 8d479237727c. Thanks, Lukas
