On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 05:31:57PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > >> Should the patch to wireless-drivers be annotated with a Stable reference so > >> that it is added to 4.12 and 4.13? > > > > According to Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt networking patches > > should not be marked cc:stable, instead a decent commit log should > > be written describing a bugfix. Which I believe it is done for > > this patch. > > But that's for net and net-next trees, not for wireless trees. With > wireless patches we use "Cc: stable@..." references. Oh, ok. I was confused by below part of Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst (because wireless drivers are located in drivers/net/) - If the patch covers files in net/ or drivers/net please follow netdev stable submission guidelines as described in Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt Thanks Stanislaw
