On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:20:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On the subject of the stable tree: could we get a standard format for > requesting post-inclusion elevation of patches to stable status? It > isn't all that unusual that the need for -stable is highlighted after a > patch has been included in a maintainer's tree, and rebasing to add > stable metadata annoys Linus. After it's in Linus's tree, just send the git id of the patch to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, along with what stable tree(s) you want to see the patch backported to. Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt should be pretty explicit about how to do this, but if not, patches to it are always welcome. Yes, this requires you to remember to do this after it hits Linus's tree, so you could do like David does for networking, and keep a seperate tree to send to me specifically for stable patches. I think he uses patchwork, but I know others use git for this, and that's fine as well. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html