commit cf903e9d3a97f89b224d2d07be37c0f160db8192 upstream.
A patch documenting how to specify which kernels a particular fix should
be backported to (seemingly) inadvertently added a minus sign after the
kernel version. This particular stable-tag format had never been used
prior to this patch, and was neither present when the patch in question
was first submitted (it was added in v2 without any comment).
Drop the minus sign to avoid any confusion.
Fixes: fdc81b7910 ("stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch.")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Johan Hovoldauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2017-04-12 12:41:15 +02:00
Add cross references for the development process documents
that were converted to ReST:
Documentation/SubmitChecklist
Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Documentation/development-process/development-process.rst
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mauro Carvalho Chehabauthored and Jonathan Corbetcommited 2016-09-21 15:43:09 -06:00
Add cross references for the documents mentioned at HOWTO and
are under the Documentation/ directory, using the ReST notation.
It should be noticed that HOWTO also mentions the /README file.
We opted to not touch it, for now, as making it build on
Sphinx would require it to be moved to a Documentation/foo
directory.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mauro Carvalho Chehabauthored and Jonathan Corbetcommited 2016-09-20 18:41:04 -06:00
- use ReST markups for section headers;
- add cross-references to the options;
- mark code blocks;
- a few minor changes to make Sphinx happy.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mauro Carvalho Chehabauthored and Jonathan Corbetcommited 2016-09-20 18:38:51 -06:00
Fixes the checkpatch.pl warning:
"WARNING: Use a single space after Cc:"
Very lazy hackers just copy&paste the stable tag from this
document. As it contains an extra space, checkpatch.pl will
not like the resulting patch...
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Richard Weinbergerauthored and Jonathan Corbetcommited 2015-11-20 16:54:57 -07:00
Clearly specify that "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" is strongly preferred so
that developers understand that the other options should only be used when
absolutely required.
Also specify how upstream commit ids should be referenced in patches
submitted directly to stable (I gathered this from looking at the stable
archives), and specify that any modified patches for stable should be
clearly documented in the patch description.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Christoffer Dallauthored and Jonathan Corbetcommited 2015-05-22 09:38:56 -06:00
The current organization of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
doesn't clearly differentiate the mutually exclusive options for
submission to the -stable review process. As I understand it, patches
are not actually required to be mailed directly to
stable@vger.kernel.org, but the instructions do not make this clear.
Also, there are some established processes that are not listed --
specifically, what I call Option 2 below.
This patch updates and reorganizes a bit, to make things clearer.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Brian Norrisauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2015-01-12 05:04:12 -08:00
Stable_kernel_rules should point submitters of network stable patches to the
netdev_FAQ.txt as requests for stable network patches should go to netdev
first.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chiluk <chiluk@canonical.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Dave Chilukauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2014-07-09 15:54:27 -07:00
Distribution kernel maintainers routinely backport fixes for users that
were deemed important but not "something critical" as defined by the
rules. To users of these kernels they are very serious and failing to fix
them reduces the value of -stable.
The problem is that the patches fixing these issues are often subtle and
prone to regressions in other ways and need greater care and attention.
To combat this, these "serious" backports should have a higher barrier
to entry.
This patch relaxes the rules to allow a distribution maintainer to merge
to -stable a backported patch or small series that fixes a "serious"
user-visible performance issue. They should include additional information on
the user-visible bug affected and a link to the bugzilla entry if available.
The same rules about the patch being already in mainline still apply.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mel Gormanauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2012-06-25 11:25:00 -07:00
Also add information on where the respective trees are.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Paul Gortmakerauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2012-06-14 17:14:47 -07:00
It would save me an email round-trip asking which stable tree(s) that a
patch should be applied to, so document that the tree number should be
specified in the email request.
Reported-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The stable@kernel.org email address has been replaced with the
stable@vger.kernel.org mailing list. Change the stable kernel rules to
reference the new list instead of the semi-defunct email alias.
CC: <stable@kernel.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Josh Boyerauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2011-10-18 13:58:59 -07:00
It is a hard requirement to include the upstream commit ID in the
changelog of a -stable submission, not just a courtesy to the stable
team. This concerns only mail submission though, which is no longer
the only way into stable. (Also, fix a double "the".)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Stefan Richterauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2010-04-22 15:24:56 -07:00
- it is possible to submit patches for the stable queue without sending
them directly stable@kernel.org. If the tag (Cc: stable@kernel.org) is
available in the sign-off area than hpa's script will filter them into
the stable mailbox once it hits Linus' tree.
- Patches which require others to be applied first can be also specified.
This was discussued in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/9/474
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sebastian Andrzej Siewiorauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2009-12-23 11:23:43 -08:00
Update the documentation for the stable tree rules to reflect
that device IDs and quirks are also suitable for -stable
kernels.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Josh Boyerauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2008-10-29 15:03:49 -07:00
stable_kernel_rules: fix must already be in mainline
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Stefan Richterauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2008-02-21 15:27:07 -08:00
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Matt LaPlanteauthored and Adrian Bunkcommited 2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
Randy brought it to my attention that in proper english "can not" should always
be written "cannot". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot
understand why this rule exists. This patch fixes "can not" in several
Documentation files as well as three Kconfigs.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Matt LaPlanteauthored and Adrian Bunkcommited 2006-10-03 22:53:09 +02:00
Small spelling, formating & similar fixes to stable_kernel_rules.txt
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhlauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2006-01-10 08:01:55 -08:00
This was the last agreed upon set of rules, it's probably time we actually add
them to the kernel tree to make them "official".
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Greg KHauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2005-07-29 13:12:49 -07:00
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