On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 02:18:54PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 07:03:06 -0600 > Robin Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Cc: stable-kernel <[email protected]> # 3.[0-6].y 21a9273 > > Cc: stable-kernel <[email protected]> # 3.[0-6].y 7040030 > > Cc: stable-kernel <[email protected]> > > > > ... > > > > Andrew, I have a question about the stable maintainer bits I hope you > > could help me with. Will the syntax I used above get this into 3.0.y > > through 3.7.y? 3.7.y does not need the other two commits, but all the > > rest do. If not and you wouldn't mind fixing it up for me, I would > > appreciate the help. > > um, I'd fix it up if I understood it, but I'm not sure that I do with > sufficient reliability. > > If you want to send a message like this to Greg and to others who > maintain earlier kernel versions then I suggest you just spell it all > out in plain old English in the main changelog. That's not very useful > information for people who are following mainline, but a couple > paragraphs in a changelog won't kill anyone. > > So can you please send me those couple of paragraphs and I'll paste > them in there headlined "-stable suggestions".
-stable suggestions: The stable trees prior to 3.7.y need commits 21a9273 and 7040030 cherry-picked in that order prior to cherry-picking this commit. The 3.7.y tree already has those two commits. -- 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
