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Documentation: -stable rules: upstream commit ID requirement reworded
It is a hard requirement to include the upstream commit ID in the changelog of a -stable submission, not just a courtesy to the stable team. This concerns only mail submission though, which is no longer the only way into stable. (Also, fix a double "the".) Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
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whitespace cleanups, etc).
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- It must follow the Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules.
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- It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree. Quote the
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respective commit ID in Linus' tree in your patch submission to -stable.
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- It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream).
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Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:
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- Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to
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stable@kernel.org.
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- To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the
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the tag
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stable@kernel.org. You must note the upstream commit ID in the changelog
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of your submission.
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- To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag
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Cc: stable@kernel.org
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in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to
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the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author
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