Re: fs/bcachefs/

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 01:30:01AM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 06:48:58AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>> We NEED and REQUIRE you, if you do modify a commit from what is in
>> Linus's tree, to say "hey, this is modified because of X and Y", not to
>> just not say anything and assume that we should blindly take a modified
>> change.  You don't want us to do that, right?
>
>I can provide commit messages in the format you need - but also: _none_
>of this is documented in stable-kernel-rules.rst, so I'm going to want
>something clear and specific I can go off of.

This part is explicitly documented in stable-kernel-rules.rst. In
particular, it lists the 3 ways one could send us commits for inclusion
(https://docs.kernel.org/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#procedure-for-submitting-patches-to-the-stable-tree).
To summarize, it's your choice of:

1. Tag it with a stable@ tag. OR:
2. Send us a mail to the stable mailing list with commit IDs for us to
cherry pick. OR:
3. Send the patches themselves (which is the option you've picked), and
then the doc proceeds to call out how to include the upstream commit ID
in the patch
(https://docs.kernel.org/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#option-3).

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Thanks,
Sasha