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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:05:10 +0100 From: Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, stable@...nel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, dhollis@...ehollis.com, Phil Chang <pchang23@...global.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -stable] Add USB PID for new MOSCHIP USB ethernet controller MCS7832 variant On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:27:12PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 09:07:37PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > Due to active notification of the new MCS7832 version by the manufacturer > > today (Mr. Milton; thanks!) -- quote: "functionality same as MCS7830", > > I'm now submitting this patch, intended for networking.git and -stable. > > This is not how you get stuff into the stable kernel trees, sorry. > Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do that. >From having read that perhaps 2 or 3 times (randomly) and following a couple dozen -stable mails I had the impression that remembering the constraints would be quite easy; obviously not - sorry! Did have some doubts about the number of hunks, though. And obviously violated the "must be upstream" rule. So what to do? Shovel patch as-is to networking only (optionally specifying the somewhat unclearly formulated Cc: stable mechanism)? Or rather minimalist-reduce the patch, then dito? > Sometimes I wonder why we even write documentation if no one ever reads > it... I could also mention some (strangely familiar) cases where people _didn't_ write kernel docs which many people likely would have liked to read to avoid wasting half-millions of dollars... *smirk* Thanks, Andreas Mohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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