Re: [PATCH] mmc: sh_mmcif: fix use after free

[Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>]

Hi Guennadi,

On Tue, Oct 30 2012, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>> In future, feel free to note the
>> stable@ situation by adding:
>> 
>>    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.6]
>
> Hm, a bit confused. I seem to remember, that one of subsystem maintainers, 
> to whom I also submitted a patch, that should also have been forwarded to 
> stable, told me, that adding this "Cc: stable@..." tag was a task of 
> subsystem maintainers, in that case his task, and not of individual 
> submitters, which might only indicate their opinion in this respect. Am I 
> wrong?

Oh, interesting; I haven't seen that complaint myself.  I don't think
there's a kernel-wide rule about this, but I might be wrong.

Personally, I'm happy with receiving the stable@ tag because I like it
when patch authors think about -stable and I want to encourage them to
do so.  (Often they know whether a patch is needed in -stable better
than I do.)

Of course, the stable@ team isn't going to do anything until the patch
enters mainline, and the patch is only going to enter mainline through
my tree after I've had a chance to change the stable@ tag if necessary,
so there's no problem for me there.

Sorry to leave you in the middle of conflicting advice. :-)  The stable@
hint is appreciated in either form; I was just trying to save you some
typing.

Thanks!

- Chris.
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