On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:18:29PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 7:22 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Either way, David Miller will need to sign off on this since he manages
net/ -stable patches.
I was unaware of different route points for stable patches, but it makes
sense.
Maybe we should add some kind of tagging
entries to MAINTAINERS so it is clear where to route stable
material? Right now I guess it is another one of these undocumented
rules that one is supposed to pick up by first annoying everyone :D
Are there other subsystems that have a second-level maintainer
for stable, so I know before annoying someone else?
I really think that this is the only exception to the procees, and given
that David is only looking at the last 2 -stable releases (that would be
4.20 and 4.19 right now) it gets a bit tricky for folks who are not
intimate with the process. So no, you're not annoying anyone :)
FWIW, the process is documented here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst#n134
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Thanks,
Sasha
