SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable
I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and
was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare
submitters time in the future.
Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index b03a832..27e7e5e 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
-into your patch.
+into the sign-off area of your patch (note, NOT an email recipient). You
+should also read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in addition to this
+file.
Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own
conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees. The networking