From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:13:05 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Latest kernel stable/longterm status Message-ID: <20120111151305.GC24077@kroah.com> References: <20120110003705.GA9482@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 01:42:08PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 13:32, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:37, Greg KH wrote: > >> First off, please everyone remember to mark any patch that you want to > >> have applied to the stable kernel trees with a simple: > >> � � � �Cc: stable > >> marking in the Signed-off-by: area. �Once the patch hits Linus's tree, I > >> will automatically be notified of it and it will be applied if possible. > >> If it does not applied, you will be notified of that. > > > > How do you want us to specify to which versions it should be applied? > > Cc: v3.2, v3.1, ... That can work, or if you read Documenation/stable_kernel_rules.txt you can see some other ways to nicely do this :) thanks, greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757553Ab2AKPO2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:14:28 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:56355 "EHLO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757303Ab2AKPOR (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:14:17 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: IaaSRYpRJAm/ZuFondrrT0JNc20GVpcoEKXlbOmIptNq 1326294856 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:13:05 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Latest kernel stable/longterm status Message-ID: <20120111151305.GC24077@kroah.com> References: <20120110003705.GA9482@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 01:42:08PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 13:32, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:37, Greg KH wrote: > >> First off, please everyone remember to mark any patch that you want to > >> have applied to the stable kernel trees with a simple: > >>        Cc: stable > >> marking in the Signed-off-by: area.  Once the patch hits Linus's tree, I > >> will automatically be notified of it and it will be applied if possible. > >> If it does not applied, you will be notified of that. > > > > How do you want us to specify to which versions it should be applied? > > Cc: v3.2, v3.1, ... That can work, or if you read Documenation/stable_kernel_rules.txt you can see some other ways to nicely do this :) thanks, greg k-h