On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:10:51 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

If you ask me in the future about the status of a -stable
patch from the networking, I'll let you know exactly what
is happening to that patch wrt. stable.  I rarely forget
to submit an appropriate patch, and when I do forget you
merely have to let me know (rather than submitting it
to -stable directly, please don't do that) so that I can
fit it in with what I plan to submit to -stable already.

As a netdev driver maintainer, I've been following this workflow for
patches that need to go to -stable:

1.  I submit a mainline patch to Jeff Garzik.
2.  Jeff submits to David.
3.  David submits to Linus.
4.  Linus merges patch into mainline.
5.  I extract mainline commit ID.
6.  I apply and test patch against appropriate 2.6.x.y git tree.
7.  I submit patch directly to -stable.

David's admonition tells me I'm doing it wrong, and that I should
submit the stable patch to Jeff as well.  Am I right?

Jay