linux-kernel - Re: How to submit patches that should be considered for stable inclusion also [Was: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: mtrr: ...]

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Message-ID: <20090313202742.GA26389@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:27:42 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: How to submit patches that should be considered for stable
	inclusion also [Was: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: mtrr: ...]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:08:07AM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Interestingly, the second-ever such tag i found in Git history 
> > was for a fix ... from you:
> I did this more intuitively.
> If this is how it should be done, this info should be spread
> to maintainers and repeated some times until really everybody
> is looking at it.

I've been saying it for quite a while, as well as Andrew, and it's
documented in the Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt file.  If you
know of any other way to document this, please let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h
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