Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:39:01 +0000 | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB) |
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:04:29PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: [...] > I guess you mean this patch violates one/both of these rules: > > - It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things > marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real > security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short, something > critical. > - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream). > > I'm not sure if the problem "we can't get any hugepage in coredump" > is considered as 'some "oh, that's not good" issue'. > But yes, it's not a critical one. > If you mean I violated the second rule, sorry, I'll get it into upstream first.
The second rule is the clear one. If you are submitting a patch to a subsystem maintainer and you want it to go into stable branches as well, you must put 'Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org' in the commit message, not just the mail header.
Ben.
-- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus
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