submitting a patch for a stable tree

[lists@kaiser.cx (Martin Kaiser)]

Hello Greg,

Thus wrote Greg KH (greg at kroah.com):

> You did?  Was this on December 12:
> 	Subject: [PATCH] mfd: fsl-imx25: Clean up irq settings during removal
> ?

yes, that was what I submitted.

> If so, I totally missed it (just now dug in my archives to find it.)

> > Is there anything that's wrong or missing? Is there a mailing list
> > archive for stable at vger.kernel.org where I can have a look at correct
> > submissions and check that my submission made it to the list?

> There is an archive, yes, I think vger lists it.

The gmane.org achive listed there doesn't work. Someone added a link to
the spinics.net archive recently, this is working.

> As for what to do next time, I ignored this as I didn't know what to do
> with it.  For some reason I thought it was just a "normal" patch being
> sent to the subsystem, sorry.

> Next time put below the --- line something like "Can you queue this up
> for 4.14?"

Ok, understood. I'll do that next time.

> Or even a simpler email would be:
> 	Can you please include git commit id 18f773937968 ("mfd:
> 	fsl-imx25: Clean up irq settings during removal") in the 4.14
> 	stable tree?  I forgot to tag it when I submitted it to the mfd
> 	subsystem.

> And I can take it from there.

> Care to try that?

Sure. But you beat me to it and queued the patch already ;-)

> And also, you can just email the stable list in response to your
> original message saying "Just curious as to the state of this."  I do
> get a ton of email, and sometimes things fall through the cracks, like
> this time.  Being reminded after a week or two is not a problem, if you
> don't get a response, it's usually required :)

Ok, just wanted to check first if I submitted the patch correctly.

Anyway, thanks for the quick repsonse and for queuing the patch.

   Martin