On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:03:19AM +0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:35:37PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 01:53:50PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > Yet I cannot allow git-send-email to actually send email to that address, > > > > lest I get an automated nastygram in response. > > > > > > Interesting. Last time this came up, the result seemed to be > > > different[*]. > > > > Hmmm... Greg KH didn't say there were no automated nastygrams, just > > that he wasn't worried about it. > > > > I can try it on the next to-be-backported commit and see what happens. > > There are no "automated" nastygrams, it's a "hit this key to send out > this form message" I have in my email client. > > The only time it triggers a false-positive is when I haven't had enough > coffee in the morning, which is what happened recently with a patch from > John Stultz. If I've sent you that message incorrectly, I'm sorry, > please let me know. If that happened, it would have been a while back. > Again, any patch cc:ed to stable that has a stable mark on it in the > signed-off-by area is fine, and it helps me to know to watch out for > things when they hit Linus's tree, or most importantly, to notice if > they somehow _don't_ hit his tree. Again, some recent patches from John > fall in to that category, they didn't make it into Linus's tree when > they probably should have for 3.19, and now I need to scoop them up > quickly when they finally do. If I hadn't been cc:ed on them, I would > not have noticed that. > > Hope this helps explain things, Yep, thank you! I will add the Cc stable lines as appropriate and stop bothering the git guys. ;-) Thanx, Paul -- 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