The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 1731160ff7c7bbb11bb1aacb14dd25e18d522779-stable tree. I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 4b0986a3613c92f4ec1bdc7f60ec66fea135991f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 09:52:31 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] Linux 5.18 diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 5033c0577c6d..7d5b0bfe7960 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ VERSION = 5 PATCHLEVEL = 18 SUBLEVEL = 0 -EXTRAVERSION = -rc7 +EXTRAVERSION = NAME = Superb Owl # *DOCUMENTATION*
