Re: AT91: Fix pull requset

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 05:09:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 01 July 2011, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > HI Linus, Russell, Arnd
> For every bug fix you commit, please check if it applies to older
> kernels as well, and mark with 'Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx' if so. Do you
> want to update the changelog and send another pull request?
Or alternatively (i.e. if you don't want to rewrite your tree) just
writing to stable@xxxxxxxxxx and indicating the upstream commit ids is
usually OK, too.
The other extreme is to point out the affected versions, e.g. by using 

	Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx [2.6.xy+]

Best regards
Uwe

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