From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: stable-kernel-rules: wireless and netdev-FAQ Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:58:15 +0300 Message-ID: <87ziaaoc2g.fsf_-_@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> References: <20170831075514.GA12340@redhat.com> <26ef3184-a19e-1bb7-7aa4-4e8647210763@lwfinger.net> <20170901085738.GA18397@redhat.com> <87y3pymqw2.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> <20170902082223.GA11293@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Larry Finger , Helmut Schaa , linux-wireless , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Stanislaw Gruszka Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170902082223.GA11293@redhat.com> (Stanislaw Gruszka's message of "Sat, 2 Sep 2017 10:22:24 +0200") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org (adding netdev and lkml) Stanislaw Gruszka writes: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 05:31:57PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Stanislaw Gruszka writes: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> >> Should the patch to wireless-drivers be annotated with a Stable reference so >> >> that it is added to 4.12 and 4.13? >> > >> > According to Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt networking patches >> > should not be marked cc:stable, instead a decent commit log should >> > be written describing a bugfix. Which I believe it is done for >> > this patch. >> >> But that's for net and net-next trees, not for wireless trees. With >> wireless patches we use "Cc: stable@..." references. > > Oh, ok. I was confused by below part of > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst > (because wireless drivers are located in drivers/net/) > > - If the patch covers files in net/ or drivers/net please follow netdev stable > submission guidelines as described in > Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt Yeah, that's confusing and should be clarified that wireless follows traditional stable process. IIRC bluetooth does the same so it's not just wireless. Any volunteers to fix it? :) -- Kalle Valo