From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lists@kaiser.cx (Martin Kaiser)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:24:36 +0100
Subject: submitting a patch for a stable tree
Message-ID: <20171217192436.GA1621@botnar.kaiser.cx>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org

Dear all,

I tried to submit a patch for 4.14 that was already accepted upstream
and is in linux-next and the 4.15-rcs.

To understand how this should be done, I looked at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
and tried to follow Option 2. It looks like I didn't get it right.


I started with a tree that contains the patch and ran

git format-patch -1 <commit id>

and then

git send-email --to stable at verg.kernel.org \
   --cc <the original maintainer and reviewers> \
   --annotate <patch file>

I added the upstream commit id above the original commit message and a
tag line

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14.x

to the patch and sent it out.


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?

Thanks for your help,

   Martin