On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote: > > > If possible, I would like to get it backported to 3.7-stable (and > > > possibly 3.2 stable), since without it a whole family of Sony desktop > > > computers is unusable under Linux out of the box. Should I do it myself > > > or do you have a process in place for HID stable patches? > > > > If the patch had > > > > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org > > > > in it, it'd be picked for -stable queue automatically. > > I considered doing that but I thought and upstream commit > ID was needed.
Yes, that's necessary in case you are cherry-picking a commit already present in Linus' tree that doesn't have explicit "Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org". Otherwise, -stable tree maintainer is automatically picking up commits that appear in Linus tree with this tag. > > > Otherwise, anyone is free to take it once it's in Linus' tree and sent > > to to sta...@vger.kernel.org for inclusion. > > So it is the standard procedure. I just wanted to make sure whether you > wanted to have all the -stable patches funnelled through you. It's not strictly necessary. I get copied on them when they are queued in -stable queue anyway. > By the way, I will be replying to this email with a follow-up patch that > I forgot to send the last time around. It is just documentation for the > quirk. Ok, thanks. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
