[PATCH] Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

From: Bagas Sanjaya

Date: Tue Oct 21 2025 - 23:43:52 EST


Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg
since cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch
maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
index 8e63d171767db8..7bd41838a5464f 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
@@ -99,8 +99,10 @@ go out with a handful of known regressions, though, hopefully, none of them
are serious.

Once a stable release is made, its ongoing maintenance is passed off to the
-"stable team," currently Greg Kroah-Hartman. The stable team will release
-occasional updates to the stable release using the 9.x.y numbering scheme.
+"stable team," currently consists of Greg Kroah-Hartman and Sasha Levin. The
+stable team will release occasional updates to the stable release using the
+9.x.y numbering scheme.
+
To be considered for an update release, a patch must (1) fix a significant
bug, and (2) already be merged into the mainline for the next development
kernel. Kernels will typically receive stable updates for a little more

base-commit: 0aa760051f4eb3d3bcd812125557bd09629a71e8
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