From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755702Ab1IPSX4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:23:56 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58899 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753579Ab1IPSXz (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:23:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:23:50 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Josh Boyer Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, willy@meta-x.org, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: stable patch queues and submission Message-ID: <20110916182350.GA7315@suse.de> References: <20110916181307.GW10700@zod.bos.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110916181307.GW10700@zod.bos.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Hi All, > > With kernel.org being down, the stable@kernel.org list is no longer > working. This leaves me wondering if we should send patches directly to > the various stable tree maintainers with [stable] in the prefix and > linux-kernel CC'd, or if the stable queues are even being maintained > during the outage. No, please do not, unless you need something "special", and even then, please cc: lkml and the developers so it's not lost. > Does anyone have a preference or suggestion on how to continue stable > releases until the list comes back? (I'm assuming 'wait' isn't really a > best all around option.) Wait and continue to add the marking to your patches, my scripts are still running and pulling the patches out and they are going into the stable queue just fine. The queue just isn't public at the moment due to kernel.org being out. greg k-h