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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to submit patches that should be considered for stable inclusion also [Was: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: mtrr: ...]
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:27:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090313202742.GA26389@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903131108.08619.trenn@suse.de>

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:08:07AM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Interestingly, the second-ever such tag i found in Git history 
> > was for a fix ... from you:
> I did this more intuitively.
> If this is how it should be done, this info should be spread
> to maintainers and repeated some times until really everybody
> is looking at it.

I've been saying it for quite a while, as well as Andrew, and it's
documented in the Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt file.  If you
know of any other way to document this, please let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-11 15:00 [PATCH] x86: mtrr: don't modify RdDram/WrDram bits of fixed MTRRs Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-12  8:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-12 11:41   ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-12 12:29     ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-03-12 12:53       ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-12 18:24     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-13  9:06       ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-12 16:39 ` [PATCH v2] " Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-13  1:58   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13  8:42     ` Thomas Renninger
2009-03-13  9:18       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 10:08         ` How to submit patches that should be considered for stable inclusion also [Was: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: mtrr: ...] Thomas Renninger
2009-03-13 20:27           ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-03-13  9:04     ` [PATCH v2] x86: mtrr: don't modify RdDram/WrDram bits of fixed MTRRs Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-13  9:21       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13  2:35   ` [tip:x86/mtrr] " Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-13  9:21   ` Andreas Herrmann

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