linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: talk about "Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org"

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1207090345540.8224@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2012 03:48:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: talk about "Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org"

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Aaro Koskinen wrote:

> > I couldn't remember whether the canonical marking is stable@...nel.org
> > or stable@...r.kernel.org, so I went looking, and discovered that it
> > wasn't mentioned in the kernel sources.  You can find mention of it in
> > Greg K-H's blog, but not everyone would necessarily find this blog
> > entry.
> 
> It's documented in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
> 

I'm wondering if it would be helpful to the stable maintainers if we 
explicitly asked that patches including "Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org" also 
include the version number of the earliest version that the change should 
be backported to?

Andrew and others do this quite often with

	Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org [3.2+]

so perhaps such a convention should be added to the documentation?
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