[PATCH] davinci: fix DM365 EVM video input mux bits
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Jul 20 12:48:07 EDT 2011
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:10:57PM +0530, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
> Hi Russell,
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 16:25:32, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:26:50PM +0530, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
> > > Since this part of the code hasn't changed since it
> > > was written, this is a good candidate for stable
> > > kernel series. You can just add:
> > >
> > > Cc: stable at kernel.org
> >
> > Be careful when doing that - if you have git mail the patches out for
> > review, and it picks that up, it'll send it to the stable team as well.
> > The stable team will then complain "that's not how to submit patches
> > to them".
> >
> > So, while you can add "Cc: stable at kernel.org" to the patch, its best
> > to only add that just before you publish the commit after review, but
> > before merging.
>
> But its very tough to guess what the last version
> ready for merging will be. Review comments can come
> at any stage.
>
> Would adding "Cc: stable at kernel.org" to the commit text
> but taking care to not actually send mail to stable at kernel.org
> help? The stable_kernel_rules.txt document seems to suggest
> this is an acceptable way:
Correct.
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