Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/7] Intel pci: Check for identity mapping candidate using system dma mask

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:42:09AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 05:30:42AM -0400, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > <formletter>
> > > 
> > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the 
> > > stable kernel tree.  Please read 
> > > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly.
> > > 
> > > </formletter>
> > > 
> > > I'll not send this out for the other 6 patches that also do not 
> > > follow the proper format, as I'm sure you would get bored reading 
> > > them.
> > 
> > None of these patches exist upstream yet so it will take some time 
> > until any of this can touch -stable. You can ignore it safely for 
> > now.
> > 
> > Mike: please add proposed stable Cc: tags in the patch only, never 
> > send it out to the stable email address itself!!
> 
> Well, with the Cc: tag git-send-email will Cc it automatically if not
> done by the user explicitly.

And that's fine, I don't object to that at all, and it makes life easier
for me as I know it is coming eventually, and I try to watch out for it
in case the subsystem maintainer forgets to apply it.

It's when the Cc: in the signed-off-area is not there that my
form-letter kicks in to advise people that they are doing something
wrong and that their patch will not get applied to the stable tree this
way.

thanks,

greg k-h