[RFC PATCH v1 1/3] docs: stable-kernel-rules: mention other usages for stable tag comments

Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-07-10T17:10:24Z

Document how to delay backporting or send a note to the stable team
using shell-style inline comments attached to stable tags.

CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
---
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
index 51df1197d5ab..6e4026dd6882 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
@@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

-in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to
-the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author
-or subsystem maintainer.
+in the sign-off area; to accompany a note to the stable team, use a shell-style
+inline comment (see below for details). Once the patch is merged it will be
+applied to the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the
+author or subsystem maintainer.

.. _option_2:

@@ -139,6 +140,21 @@ The tag has the meaning of:

For each "-stable" tree starting with the specified version.

+To delay pick up of patches submitted via :ref:`option_1`, use the following
+format:
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # after 4 weeks in mainline
+
+For any other requests related to patches submitted via :ref:`option_1`, just
+add a note to the stable tag. This for example can be used to point out known
+problems:
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # see patch description, needs adjustments for >= 6.3
+
Following the submission:

- The sender will receive an ACK when the patch has been accepted into the
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