linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: stable-kernel-rules: fix stable-tag format

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Message-ID: <20170408111731.5364a32d@lwn.net>
Date:   Sat, 8 Apr 2017 11:17:31 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: stable-kernel-rules: fix stable-tag
 format

On Mon,  3 Apr 2017 15:53:34 +0200
Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org> wrote:

> A patch documenting how to specify which kernels a particular fix should
> be backported to (seemingly) inadvertently added a minus sign after the
> kernel version. This particular stable-tag format had never been used
> prior to this patch, and was neither present when the patch in question
> was first submitted (it was added in v2 without any comment).
> 
> Drop the minus sign to avoid any confusion.

Makes sense.  Applied, thanks.

jon