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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 years ago
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@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this:
 
 
   Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
   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
 Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own
 conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees.  The networking
 conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees.  The networking