Re: [PATCH] Update email address for stable patch submission

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Oct 18 2011 - 10:22:11 EST


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 07:13:50AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:58:52AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:16:39PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > The stable@xxxxxxxxxx email address has been replaced with the
> > > stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list. Change the stable kernel rules to
> > > reference the new list instead of the semi-defunct email alias.
> >
> > Does this mean it already stopped working? I recently sent pathces
> > there but neither got an ACK nor a bounce or similar.
>
> It should have bounced.
>
> But, if you put a "Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx" in the patch, I'm still
> picking that up properly when it goes to Linus's tree.

Doesn't help if two of the patch have been for a while, and the
others need various small updates to apply against 3.0 (file renames
and macro removal)
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