[PATCH v9 11/25] gpio/omap: cleanup omap_gpio_mod_init function

Kevin Hilman khilman at ti.com
Fri Apr 27 17:31:11 EDT 2012


"DebBarma, Tarun Kanti" <tarun.kanti at ti.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

[...]

>> Correction.
>>
>> Don't email your patch in any way to the stable folk _before_ it has been
>> taken into Linus' tree.  However, you _may_ add in the patch attributations
>> a Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> tag if you want the stable folk to
>> automatically pick up your patch when it _does_ end up in Linus' tree.
>> But... make sure that git send-email or whatever doesn't automatically
>> add that to the recipients for the emailed patch.
>>
>> If you send the stable people a patch before its in mainline, you'll get
>> a whinge telling you to read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
>
> Alright, I will add Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> tag in the patch.

If you do that, be sure to use --suppress-cc=bodycc when you send it
with git-send-email.

Kevin



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