Commit 0f11447d authored by Thorsten Leemhuis's avatar Thorsten Leemhuis Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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docs: stable-kernel-rules: improve structure by changing headlines 



* replace a needless sub-heading with a short intro sentence
* make "Following the submission" a proper sub-section with a headline
  without changing the text of the section

CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0737676f951050b2ec39e1662ffea37d77ef0bec.1691219455.git.linux@leemhuis.info


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 7f0718ed

Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst

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@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree 
   process but should follow the procedures in

   :ref:`Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst <securitybugs>`.



For all other submissions, choose one of the following procedures

-----------------------------------------------------------------

There are three options to submit a change to -stable trees:



.. _option_1:
@@ -153,13 +152,15 @@ problems: 


     Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # see patch description, needs adjustments for >= 6.3



Following the submission:

Following the submission

------------------------



 - The sender will receive an ACK when the patch has been accepted into the

The sender will receive an ACK when the patch has been accepted into the

queue, or a NAK if the patch is rejected.  This response might take a few

days, according to the developer's schedules.

 - If accepted, the patch will be added to the -stable queue, for review by

   other developers and by the relevant subsystem maintainer.



If accepted, the patch will be added to the -stable queue, for review by other

developers and by the relevant subsystem maintainer.





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