On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 03:20:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 23:32 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:11:55PM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > 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. > > > > No it is not. It seems you also need to read > > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > [...] > > None of which contradicts what I said above. There is no need for
I really can't believe you just said that. You have not read the document. Further discussion is pointless until you do, and I suggest everyone ignores your comments on this subject until you have read the document, because you are currently misleading people. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
