Re: Latest kernel stable/longterm status

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 11 2012 - 10:14:26 EST


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 01:42:08PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 13:32, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:37, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> First off, please everyone remember to mark any patch that you want to
> >> have applied to the stable kernel trees with a simple:
> >>        Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> marking in the Signed-off-by: area.  Once the patch hits Linus's tree, I
> >> will automatically be notified of it and it will be applied if possible.
> >> If it does not applied, you will be notified of that.
> >
> > How do you want us to specify to which versions it should be applied?
>
> Cc: v3.2, v3.1, ... <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That can work, or if you read Documenation/stable_kernel_rules.txt you
can see some other ways to nicely do this :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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