Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI processor: Fix a typo error in commit 99b725084

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Fri Aug 03 2012 - 02:14:05 EST


On 08/03/2012 11:33 AM, Feng Tang wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 11:26:04 +0530
> "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 08/03/2012 09:52 AM, Len Brown wrote:
>>> Applied.
>>>
>>> thanks for the refresh.
>>>
>>
>> This patch needs to be CC'ed to stable also right?
>
> Yes, I've sent the patch directly to stable 3 days ago. thanks
> for the note.
>

Hmm? Patches are not accepted into the stable tree until the patch
goes upstream, IIUC. And to make a patch automatically go to -stable
once it hits mainline, you need to add Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
among the Signed-off-by sequence in the patch.

Otherwise, we can explicitly mail the patch to stable, -after- the
corresponding patch hits mainline.. In fact, we will also have to quote
the mainline commit id in that.

See Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for details.

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

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