提交 8cda4c3a 编写于 作者: L Luke Dashjr 提交者: Jonathan Corbet

SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable

I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and
was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare
submitters time in the future.
Signed-off-by: NLuke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
上级 8547aa13
......@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this:
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
into your patch.
into the sign-off area of your patch (note, NOT an email recipient). You
should also read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in addition to this
file.
Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own
conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees. The networking
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