Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:23:43 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [Stable-review] 4 stable kernel review cycles starting |
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David Miller wrote: > From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> > Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 06:40:48 +0200 > >> For this reason, IMHO it helps when submitters can indicate in each >> patch the mainline equivalent ID, or alternatively that it's pointless >> to look for it because the fix is much different. > > I put this at the top of every networking/ide/sparc commit message > for -stable submissions I make. > > In fact I thought that was a requirement for -stable submissions?
It is a documented requirement, perhaps not very clearly worded in The Submitter's Guide To Stable... http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=46cdf871d9970b9252469531f9efd4a17243bb0b -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- -=-- ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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