From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: -stable rules: upstream commit ID requirement reworded
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:02:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100424020253.GP14986@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271976016-3584-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:40:14PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
>
> It is a hard requirement to include the upstream commit ID in the
> changelog of a -stable submission, not just a courtesy to the stable
> team. This concerns only mail submission though, which is no longer
> the only way into stable. (Also, fix a double "the".)
I find the upstream commit ID to be highly useful when looking at
commits in the stable tree. So it would be nice IMHO if we could
enforce this requirement regardless of whether the submission path is
via e-mail or git.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-24 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-22 22:29 [GIT PATCH] driver core fixes for 2.6.34-git Greg KH
2010-04-22 22:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: -stable rules: upstream commit ID requirement reworded Greg Kroah-Hartman
2010-04-24 2:02 ` tytso [this message]
2010-04-24 9:12 ` Stefan Richter
2010-04-24 9:30 ` Stefan Richter
2010-04-24 15:02 ` Greg KH
2010-04-24 16:50 ` Theodore Tso
2010-04-22 22:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] Documentation/HOWTO: update git home URL Greg Kroah-Hartman
2010-04-22 22:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] sysfs: use sysfs_attr_init in ASUS atk0110 driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
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