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SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable
I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare submitters time in the future. Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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into your patch.
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into the sign-off area of your patch (note, NOT an email recipient). You
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should also read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in addition to this
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Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own
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conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees. The networking

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