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SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable

I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and
was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare
submitters time in the future.

Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Luke Dashjr 10 年之前
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@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this:
 
   Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
 
-into your patch.
+into the sign-off area of your patch (note, NOT an email recipient).  You
+should also read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in addition to this
+file.
 
 Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own
 conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees.  The networking