linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] stable_kernel_rules.txt: Exclude networking from stable rules

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Message-ID: <20130919213241.GB31672@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:32:41 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stable_kernel_rules.txt: Exclude networking from stable
 rules

Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> :
[...]
> diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> index b0714d8..a2d6da0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> @@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
>  
>  Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:
>  
> + - The networking tree (net/ and drivers/net/) is 'special' and doesn't
> +   follow the rules below.  Don't send or cc: patches for the -stable tree to
> +   stable@...r.kernel.org.  Don't mark them stable.  Just send the patches to
> +   netdev@...r.kernel.org and let the networking maintainer decide what to do
> +   with them.

David said "simply ask me to queue them up for -stable explicitly".

He did not say "send the patches and let me decide what to do with them".

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Ueimor
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