Re: [PATCH 0/3] splice fixes

[Jens Axboe]

On 08/07/10 19.25, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:38:22 +0200 Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>>> However this:
>>>>
>>>> commit 4f9078afb4e083e033aafbbfabe729cb3832aa42
>>>> Author: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date:   Tue Jun 29 13:09:18 2010 +0200
>>>>
>>>>     splice: direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd
>>>>
>>>> went into mainline without a cc:stable tag.
>>>
>>> I will send an email to stable@.
>>
>> BTW, it's not in mainline yet. I know I forgot to mark it as stable,
>> but I can't tell them to include it before it's in mainline.
> 
> You could redo the changelog then.  But stable@xxxxxxxxxx is cc'ed on
> these emails and they're splendid chaps ;)

But then the Linus monster ends up shouting at me, so I'll rather
take a little stable abuse :-)

What I've done in the past is just send stable@ a list of commits
once they are upstream. Less work for them. Best is remembering
the stable CC in the commit, but...

-- 
Jens Axboe

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