Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:07:30 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag |
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:04:28PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 13:19 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > That seems to be a bit drastic. It is quite useful to have the tag, > > but maybe it should only be added by the maintainer and not in the initial > > patch submission. This would ensure that the maintainer(s) made the decision. > > If the original patch submitter thinks that the patch is stable material, > > that information could be added in the comments section. > > In the case where a maintainer applies a patch with 'git am', surely > they can *see* that it's cc:stable? > If that maintainer is careful, yes. But that isn't the point or idea. The difference is that the maintainer would have to make an active decision to add the cc:stable tag vs. just going along with it.
Guenter
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