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Message-Id: <20121121.174014.268181096393133050.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:40:14 -0500 (EST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc: romieu@...zoreil.com, jgarzik@...ox.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, hayeswang@...ltek.com, gilboad@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8139cp: set ring address after enabling C+ mode
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:32:11 +0000
> On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 21:40 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
>> Straight to -stable ?
>
> That's the way it works. You put the Cc: stable on the *original* commit
> that goes upstream. There's no sane way to retroactively add that tag
> after it's already been merged and tested.
>
> Yes, you can bug Greg manually to 'please add this upstream commit which
> we forgot to mark as Cc: stable' but that isn't the way it's usually
> done.
On the contrary, for networking I submit everything manually and I
remove the CC: tags.
I have a queue on patchwork that I add such patches to, so that they
do not get lost.
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