On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:49:23PM +0900, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 02:18:20PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote: > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > <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> Not sure what exactly your script latched onto, but at least in the drm subsystem it's pretty common to remind maintainers with a reply just containing Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx that they need to add that to the patch when applying. Often combined with an r-b/a-b tag. And Damien is working to teach patchwork to auto-add those, so yeah it's indeed the right way to submit a patch for stable. At least here ;-) Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch
