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SubjectRe: [patch 00/50] 2.6.25.6 -stable review
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:10:51 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:


> If you ask me in the future about the status of a -stable
> patch from the networking, I'll let you know exactly what
> is happening to that patch wrt. stable. I rarely forget
> to submit an appropriate patch, and when I do forget you
> merely have to let me know (rather than submitting it
> to -stable directly, please don't do that) so that I can
> fit it in with what I plan to submit to -stable already.


As a netdev driver maintainer, I've been following this workflow for
patches that need to go to -stable:

1. I submit a mainline patch to Jeff Garzik.
2. Jeff submits to David.
3. David submits to Linus.
4. Linus merges patch into mainline.
5. I extract mainline commit ID.
6. I apply and test patch against appropriate 2.6.x.y git tree.
7. I submit patch directly to -stable.

David's admonition tells me I'm doing it wrong, and that I should
submit the stable patch to Jeff as well. Am I right?

Jay


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