From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:33203 "EHLO mail-wm0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964812AbcDTLYS (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:24:18 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f53.google.com with SMTP id 127so10833535wmz.0 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:24:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:24:09 +0200 From: Daniel Vetter To: Greg KH Cc: Huacai Chen , Linux MIPS Mailing List , Maling list - DRI developers , stable Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: Loongson-3 doesn't fully support wc memory Message-ID: <20160420112409.GN2510@phenom.ffwll.local> References: <1461064751-17873-1-git-send-email-chenhc@lemote.com> <20160420064923.GA698@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160420064923.GA698@kroah.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:49:23PM +0900, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 02:18:20PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote: > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > > > > 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. > > Not sure what exactly your script latched onto, but at least in the drm subsystem it's pretty common to remind maintainers with a reply just containing Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org that they need to add that to the patch when applying. Often combined with an r-b/a-b tag. And Damien is working to teach patchwork to auto-add those, so yeah it's indeed the right way to submit a patch for stable. At least here ;-) Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch