Hi Larry, >> one other thing. Please let maintainers decide when a patch is useful for >> stable and when not. Patches need to go upstream first anyway. People >> spamming [email protected] with patches that are not reviewed yet is >> pretty much a waste of time. > > Sorry. In the wireless tree, the patch author suggests that the patch is > suitable for stable. If the maintainer disagrees, he strips the Cc to stable. > It seems that you do it the other way. In either case, I do not think the > stable patches are picked up by the maintainers of stable versions until the > patch hits mainline.
I have no idea what the [email protected] guys do with patches that are not yet upstream. However it is a waste of their time sending stuff to their mailing list that has not even seen a maintainer review. You can just mention it in the comment section that this might qualify for stable. Regards Marcel -- 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
