From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
Torsten Schenk <torsten.schenk@zoho.com>
Subject: Re: submitting patch: specify destination kernel version(s)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 06:57:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110902135735.GA28815@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACTFLAN-HSBbYz1NQo7oLyMqz50wvz_dhTRBWA+OF2gVp6b=1w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:50:36PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Torsten Schenk <torsten.schenk@zoho.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently preparing a patch for the kernel, I want it to be included from 3.0 on, but not in versions before. I once got a hint to put
> >
> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> >
> > but that seems not to do the trick. How could it be achieved, that the patch only appears in 3.0 (and later)?
> >
>
> This is not really officially documented, but there seems to be a
> general agreement that this line should do what you want:
>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0+]
>
> At least, other patches were submitted that way. Greg, is that correct?
Yes, that is correct.
Please see Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for the details.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-03 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-02 12:16 submitting patch: specify destination kernel version(s) Torsten Schenk
2011-09-02 12:50 ` Daniel Mack
2011-09-02 13:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-09-02 13:57 ` Mark Brown
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