From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFC6C43381 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59ADC20684 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:06:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1551136009; bh=5gCkUFbqYPShhQnYRUPzvTHVN2fejApoDDiF++9gL8k=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=uNvgTgbYy/wKXryd5ZA3Lt28aeGdRqwnqrl0hNeItG/3KXqk3MP/vFDrfzFj36s29 niokXGt8dJ6DLLQ7ugtBGTc0ovO1kp6knBKOfz4DeuOmGeel+su+EeyAbIW+aIBNE9 E0RCOJZYWQD4FmxkYDv6R8A+YuugPdpJw4Sddja8= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728704AbfBYXGs (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:06:48 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:37136 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727554AbfBYXGr (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:06:47 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6D2820684; Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:06:46 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1551136007; bh=5gCkUFbqYPShhQnYRUPzvTHVN2fejApoDDiF++9gL8k=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=1GQLCA3PrS+zTcldLTAWbqyZkD+SKX0pVbX5LQ1KvWrXxEFZtFikscBkE9ozWEmbc obzGz48RPG2rrol77b1KFd2XFj2lTI+ykkMifx2VXVoyQd+62mOddx1xIRtiVzp7LD E+FaeL9ZdouhrgvhApL+1O0bE1vxyACD3ZTbgYUk= Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:06:44 +0100 From: "Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org)" To: "Marciniszyn, Mike" Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: stable process question Message-ID: <20190225230644.GA17871@kroah.com> References: <32E1700B9017364D9B60AED9960492BC70C90703@fmsmsx120.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <32E1700B9017364D9B60AED9960492BC70C90703@fmsmsx120.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:01:01PM +0000, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote: > Greg, > > I am working on a patch series that may need to be stable at some point. > > There are pre-reqs but one of the pre-reqs might need to be different in the older kernels. > > How is the best way to handle that situation? > > I might be able to split the problematic patch... Did you read the documentation on how to submit a patch to the stable kernel tree? It should answer this. You can also just provide the needed backported patches to the mailing list after the patch has hit Linus's tree, that works well too. thanks, greg k-h