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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, willy@meta-x.org,
	paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stable patch queues and submission
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:39:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110916183921.GB16415@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110916183113.GY10700@zod.bos.redhat.com>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:31:13PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:23:50PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Would "special" include patches that are backported for longterm
> releases?

Yes.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-16 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-16 18:13 Josh Boyer
2011-09-16 18:14 ` stable patch queues and submission Josh Boyer
2011-09-16 18:23 ` Greg KH
2011-09-16 18:31   ` Josh Boyer
2011-09-16 18:39     ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-09-16 18:35   ` Willy Tarreau
2011-09-16 18:38     ` Greg KH

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