Hi All, I have a question about sending a patch with more than 100 lines.
Per http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, Patches with more than 100 lines are not acceptable. I am backporting 2aa15890f3c191326678f1bd68af61ec6b8753ec to .32.x stable tree. The backported patch has to be more than 100 lines. (Also the original one exceeds the limit). So why there is such an limit? I see many patches that are more than 100 lines with "Cc: [email protected]" tagged sent to mainline. And also, for example, 2aa15890f3c191326678f1bd68af61ec6b8753ec is included in .39 stable tree. So do we must obey the 100 lines limit? If the patch does need to be more than 100 lines, it can't be included? If we have to split it to serveral ones, non of them can fully fix the problem. For this problem, http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt only says it has to be, but didn't say how to make it like that. thanks and regards, wengang. _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
