On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 20:14 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:37:11PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 06:23:04PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:52:24PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > > > I've CC'd stable to see if they want to pick this up. > > > > > > That's not how stable works - and you'll probably receive a standard form > > > whinge from them about that. Please read up on the submission > > > requirements > > > to the stable kernel trees. > > > > Ah, thanks. usually, I just add the Cc: line for fixes I send to > > arm-soc. Since this patch affects more than just kirkwood/marvell, I > > didn't feel it was appropriate to pull it in through my tree. > > Yes, you put the Cc: line in the commit, but you don't actually send it > to that address. [...]
It's OK to cc the stable address when submitting to the relevant
subsystem maintainer *as well as* including the cc: line in the commit
message. It just can't be used as a substitute for the commit line.
Ben.
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