-Everything you ever wanted to know about Linux 2.6 -stable releases.
+Everything you ever wanted to know about Linux -stable releases.
Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
"-stable" tree:
marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real
security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short, something
critical.
+ - Serious issues as reported by a user of a distribution kernel may also
+ be considered if they fix a notable performance or interactivity issue.
+ As these fixes are not as obvious and have a higher risk of a subtle
+ regression they should only be submitted by a distribution kernel
+ maintainer and include an addendum linking to a bugzilla entry if it
+ exists and additional information on the user-visible impact.
- New device IDs and quirks are also accepted.
- No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how the
race can be exploited is also provided.
Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:
- Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to
- stable@kernel.org. You must note the upstream commit ID in the changelog
- of your submission.
+ stable@vger.kernel.org. You must note the upstream commit ID in the
+ changelog of your submission, as well as the kernel version you wish
+ it to be applied to.
- To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag
- Cc: stable@kernel.org
+ 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.
cherry-picked than this can be specified in the following format in
the sign-off area:
- Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x: a1f84a3: sched: Check for idle
- Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x: 1b9508f: sched: Rate-limit newidle
- Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x: fd21073: sched: Fix affinity logic
- Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x
+ Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3.x: a1f84a3: sched: Check for idle
+ Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3.x: 1b9508f: sched: Rate-limit newidle
+ Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3.x: fd21073: sched: Fix affinity logic
+ Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3.x
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The tag sequence has the meaning of:
security kernel team, and not go through the normal review cycle.
Contact the kernel security team for more details on this procedure.
+Trees:
+
+ - The queues of patches, for both completed versions and in progress
+ versions can be found at:
+ http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
+ - The finalized and tagged releases of all stable kernels can be found
+ in separate branches per version at:
+ http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
+
Review committee: