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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>
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Linux 2.6 -stable releases.
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Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
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"-stable" tree:
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- It must be obviously correct and tested.
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- It cannot be bigger than 100 lines, with context.
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- It must fix only one thing.
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- It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a
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problem..." type thing).
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- It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things
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marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real
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security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short, something
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critical.
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- New device IDs and quirks are also accepted.
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- No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how the
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race can be exploited is also provided.
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- It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
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whitespace cleanups, etc).
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- It must follow the Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules.
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- It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream).
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Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:
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- Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to
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stable@kernel.org. You must note the upstream commit ID in the changelog
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of your submission.
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- To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag
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Cc: stable@kernel.org
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in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to
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the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author
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or subsystem maintainer.
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- If the patch requires other patches as prerequisites which can be
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cherry-picked than this can be specified in the following format in
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the sign-off area:
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Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x: a1f84a3: sched: Check for idle
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Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x: 1b9508f: sched: Rate-limit newidle
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Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x: fd21073: sched: Fix affinity logic
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Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The tag sequence has the meaning of:
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git cherry-pick a1f84a3
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git cherry-pick 1b9508f
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git cherry-pick fd21073
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git cherry-pick <this commit>
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- The sender will receive an ACK when the patch has been accepted into the
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queue, or a NAK if the patch is rejected. This response might take a few
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days, according to the developer's schedules.
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- If accepted, the patch will be added to the -stable queue, for review by
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other developers and by the relevant subsystem maintainer.
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- Security patches should not be sent to this alias, but instead to the
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documented security@kernel.org address.
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Review cycle:
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- When the -stable maintainers decide for a review cycle, the patches will be
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sent to the review committee, and the maintainer of the affected area of
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the patch (unless the submitter is the maintainer of the area) and CC: to
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the linux-kernel mailing list.
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- The review committee has 48 hours in which to ACK or NAK the patch.
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- If the patch is rejected by a member of the committee, or linux-kernel
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members object to the patch, bringing up issues that the maintainers and
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members did not realize, the patch will be dropped from the queue.
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- At the end of the review cycle, the ACKed patches will be added to the
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latest -stable release, and a new -stable release will happen.
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- Security patches will be accepted into the -stable tree directly from the
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security kernel team, and not go through the normal review cycle.
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Contact the kernel security team for more details on this procedure.
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Review committee:
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- This is made up of a number of kernel developers who have volunteered for
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this task, and a few that haven't.
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