Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Jul 12 2013 - 13:21:15 EST


On the subject of the stable tree: could we get a standard format for
requesting post-inclusion elevation of patches to stable status? It
isn't all that unusual that the need for -stable is highlighted after a
patch has been included in a maintainer's tree, and rebasing to add
stable metadata annoys Linus.

-hpa

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