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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cpufreq, powernow-k8: Remove usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
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> On Sunday 14 of October 2012 10:27:22 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the patch! I'll queue it up for v3.7 when I get back home from
> > the current trip (around the -rc3 time frame I suppose).
> >
> > In future please don't send patches directly to stable@vger.kernel.org.
> > That doesn't make -stable pick them up anyway and confuses things.
>
> That happens anyway if you tag the patch for stable and use git
> send-email. Unless you go the extra mile and filter out the cc list,
> which is tedious.

Well, please don't tag patches for -stable, because -stable doesn't take
_patches_. It takes commits from the Linus' tree and backports them and
that's maintainer's job to tag them for -stable, not yours.

You can give the maintainer a hint that you _think_ it's -stable material
(e.g. in the additional patch description that goes after the changelog),
but the maintainer may still disagree with you and may not tag the commit
for -stable after all.

> Besides, I'm pretty sure stable maintainers verify a patch is actually
> upstream before applying it anyway.

Yes, they do, but that means it doesn't make sense to send them stuff
before it's been merged, right?

Rafael


--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.


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