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.
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