From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: [PATCH] stable_kernel_rules.txt: Exclude networking from stable rules Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:32:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20130919213241.GB31672@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20130919.135628.1201613770803318193.davem@davemloft.net> <1379615474.22168.13.camel@joe-AO722> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Mikulas Patocka , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Rob Landley , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML To: Joe Perches Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1379615474.22168.13.camel@joe-AO722> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Joe Perches : [...] > diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > index b0714d8..a2d6da0 100644 > --- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > +++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > @@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the > > Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree: > > + - The networking tree (net/ and drivers/net/) is 'special' and doesn't > + follow the rules below. Don't send or cc: patches for the -stable tree to > + stable@vger.kernel.org. Don't mark them stable. Just send the patches to > + netdev@vger.kernel.org and let the networking maintainer decide what to do > + with them. David said "simply ask me to queue them up for -stable explicitly". He did not say "send the patches and let me decide what to do with them". -- Ueimor