Messages in this thread | | | From | "Nori, Sekhar" <> | Date | Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:10:57 +0530 | Subject | RE: [PATCH] davinci: fix DM365 EVM video input mux bits |
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Hi Russell,
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 16:25:32, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:26:50PM +0530, Nori, Sekhar wrote: > > Since this part of the code hasn't changed since it > > was written, this is a good candidate for stable > > kernel series. You can just add: > > > > Cc: stable@kernel.org > > Be careful when doing that - if you have git mail the patches out for > review, and it picks that up, it'll send it to the stable team as well. > The stable team will then complain "that's not how to submit patches > to them". > > So, while you can add "Cc: stable@kernel.org" to the patch, its best > to only add that just before you publish the commit after review, but > before merging.
But its very tough to guess what the last version ready for merging will be. Review comments can come at any stage.
Would adding "Cc: stable@kernel.org" to the commit text but taking care to not actually send mail to stable@kernel.org help? The stable_kernel_rules.txt document seems to suggest this is an acceptable way:
" - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag Cc: stable@kernel.org in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author or subsystem maintainer. "
Thanks, Sekhar
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