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| author | Hugo Villeneuve | 2023-09-11 16:36:30 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 2023-10-05 13:43:45 +0200 |
| commit | 4f01342464a8a99bf0cbb45a3ce4cf44a8baa1c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 96f923c28dbe225ec450c8f63c932df873e54bfb /Documentation/process | |
| parent | 1b057bd800c3ea0c926191d7950cd2365eddc9bb (diff) | |
Documentation: stable: clarify patch series prerequisites
Add some clarifications for patches that have dependencies within the
patch series.
Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com>
Rule: add
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20230911203628.20068-1-hugo%40hugovil.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230911203628.20068-1-hugo@hugovil.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/process')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst index 41f1e07abfdf..1704f1c686d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst @@ -101,6 +101,19 @@ comment: git cherry-pick fd21073 git cherry-pick <this commit> + Note that for a patch series, you do not have to list as prerequisites the + patches present in the series itself. For example, if you have the following + patch series: + + .. code-block:: none + + patch1 + patch2 + + where patch2 depends on patch1, you do not have to list patch1 as + prerequisite of patch2 if you have already marked patch1 for stable + inclusion. + * For patches that may have kernel version prerequisites specify them using the following format in the sign-off area: |