Commit f0ea149e authored by Lee Jones's avatar Lee Jones Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: submitting-patches: Emphasise the requirement to Cc: stable when using Fixes: tag 



Clear-up any confusion surrounding the Fixes: tag with regards to the
need to Cc: the stable mailing list when submitting stable patch
candidates.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113163315.1331064-1-lee.jones@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent e651fdb2

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

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@@ -556,6 +556,11 @@ which stable kernel versions should receive your fix. This is the preferred 
method for indicating a bug fixed by the patch. See :ref:`describe_changes`

for more details.



Note: Attaching a Fixes: tag does not subvert the stable kernel rules

process nor the requirement to Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org on all stable 

patch candidates. For more information, please read

:ref:`Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst <stable_kernel_rules>`

     

.. _the_canonical_patch_format:



The canonical patch format