stable-kernel-rules: wireless and netdev-FAQ

(adding netdev and lkml)

Stanislaw Gruszka [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 05:31:57PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:

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Stanislaw Gruszka [off-list ref] writes:

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

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Should the patch to wireless-drivers be annotated with a Stable reference so
that it is added to 4.12 and 4.13?

According to Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt networking patches
should not be marked cc:stable, instead a decent commit log should
be written describing a bugfix. Which I believe it is done for
this patch.

But that's for net and net-next trees, not for wireless trees. With
wireless patches we use "Cc: stable@..." references.

Oh, ok. I was confused by below part of
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst 
(because wireless drivers are located in drivers/net/)

 - If the patch covers files in net/ or drivers/net please follow netdev stable
   submission guidelines as described in
   Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt

Yeah, that's confusing and should be clarified that wireless follows
traditional stable process. IIRC bluetooth does the same so it's not
just wireless.

Any volunteers to fix it? :)

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Kalle Valo