Distribution kernel maintainers routinely backport fixes for users that
were deemed important but not "something critical" as defined by the
rules. To users of these kernels they are very serious and failing to fix
them reduces the value of -stable.

The problem is that the patches fixing these issues are often subtle and
prone to regressions in other ways and need greater care and attention.
To combat this, these "serious" backports should have a higher barrier
to entry.

This patch relaxes the rules to allow a distribution maintainer to merge
to -stable a backported patch or small series that fixes a "serious"
user-visible performance issue. They should include additional information on
the user-visible bug affected and a link to the bugzilla entry if available.
The same rules about the patch being already in mainline still apply.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

It would save me an email round-trip asking which stable tree(s) that a
patch should be applied to, so document that the tree number should be
specified in the email request.
Reported-by: NTomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The stable@kernel.org email address has been replaced with the
stable@vger.kernel.org mailing list.  Change the stable kernel rules to
reference the new list instead of the semi-defunct email alias.

CC: <stable@kernel.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

It is a hard requirement to include the upstream commit ID in the
changelog of a -stable submission, not just a courtesy to the stable
team.  This concerns only mail submission though, which is no longer
the only way into stable.  (Also, fix a double "the".)
Signed-off-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

- it is possible to submit patches for the stable queue without sending
  them directly stable@kernel.org. If the tag (Cc: stable@kernel.org) is
  available in the sign-off area than hpa's script will filter them into
  the stable mailbox once it hits Linus' tree.
- Patches which require others to be applied first can be also specified.
  This was discussued in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/9/474Signed-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Update the documentation for the stable tree rules to reflect
that device IDs and quirks are also suitable for -stable
kernels.
Signed-off-by: NJosh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

stable_kernel_rules: fix must already be in mainline
Signed-off-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Randy brought it to my attention that in proper english "can not" should always
be written "cannot". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot
understand why this rule exists.  This patch fixes "can not" in several
Documentation files as well as three Kconfigs.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Small spelling, formating & similar fixes to stable_kernel_rules.txt
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This was the last agreed upon set of rules, it's probably time we actually add
them to the kernel tree to make them "official".
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>