Re: [PATCH] Documentation: talk about "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org"

[David Rientjes]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Aaro Koskinen wrote:

> > I couldn't remember whether the canonical marking is stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> > or stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, so I went looking, and discovered that it
> > wasn't mentioned in the kernel sources.  You can find mention of it in
> > Greg K-H's blog, but not everyone would necessarily find this blog
> > entry.
> 
> It's documented in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
> 

I'm wondering if it would be helpful to the stable maintainers if we 
explicitly asked that patches including "Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" also 
include the version number of the earliest version that the change should 
be backported to?

Andrew and others do this quite often with

	Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [3.2+]

so perhaps such a convention should be added to the documentation?
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