Commit d0bde9ca authored by Thorsten Leemhuis's avatar Thorsten Leemhuis Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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docs: stable-kernel-rules: mention other usages for stable tag comments 



Document how to delay backporting or send a note to the stable team
using shell-style inline comments attached to stable tags.

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/bf1489b40ff358b7cb4f7d8cc73d5c7c3c143471.1689056247.git.linux@leemhuis.info


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst

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@@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag 


     Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org



in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to

the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author

or subsystem maintainer.

in the sign-off area. To accompany a note to the stable team, use a shell-style

inline comment (see below for details). Once the patch is merged it will be

applied to the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the

author or subsystem maintainer.



.. _option_2:
@@ -139,6 +140,21 @@ The tag has the meaning of: 


For each "-stable" tree starting with the specified version.



To delay pick up of patches submitted via :ref:`option_1`, use the following

format:



.. code-block:: none



     Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # after 4 weeks in mainline



For any other requests related to patches submitted via :ref:`option_1`, just

add a note to the stable tag. This for example can be used to point out known

problems:



.. code-block:: none



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



Following the submission:



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