Re: [patch 00/50] 2.6.25.6 -stable review

[Jeff Garzik]

Jay Cliburn wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:10:51 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > If you ask me in the future about the status of a -stable
> > patch from the networking, I'll let you know exactly what
> > is happening to that patch wrt. stable.  I rarely forget
> > to submit an appropriate patch, and when I do forget you
> > merely have to let me know (rather than submitting it
> > to -stable directly, please don't do that) so that I can
> > fit it in with what I plan to submit to -stable already.
>
>
> As a netdev driver maintainer, I've been following this workflow for
> patches that need to go to -stable:
>
> 1.  I submit a mainline patch to Jeff Garzik.
> 2.  Jeff submits to David.
> 3.  David submits to Linus.
> 4.  Linus merges patch into mainline.
> 5.  I extract mainline commit ID.
> 6.  I apply and test patch against appropriate 2.6.x.y git tree.
> 7.  I submit patch directly to -stable.
>
> David's admonition tells me I'm doing it wrong, and that I should
> submit the stable patch to Jeff as well.  Am I right?

I usually encourage a more-parallel process where you simply email 
stable@xxxxxxxxxx with the upstream commit id of the change(s) in question.

	Jeff



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