From nobody Fri Sep 12 03:11:10 2025 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9A9CA0EC5 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:05:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S242643AbjIKU6J (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:58:09 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39770 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S244506AbjIKUi7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:38:59 -0400 Received: from mail.hugovil.com (mail.hugovil.com [162.243.120.170]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65688127; Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:38:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=hugovil.com ; s=x; h=Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version:Message-Id:Date:Cc:To :From:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=TLJ2bc/snhPLEcNROaiK2c5oF2wkJhqsS7gx9Br7BU8=; b=B6T9RrhySsq6SSgeW/VSamHn2J FA+hjYw88EPbe3YEATYM2wTvQC4oSswvqDHjsb24NYeWybhPGAIMNcH4LEPLC62WNiVHl+47FLTa7 9BbjvaXJHnGNwWyz9JnM8eLQRQRAmaUAhz6+JBQsVkpk9fN7qcmiMNZFKwua1xR0wyZ8=; Received: from modemcable168.174-80-70.mc.videotron.ca ([70.80.174.168]:60746 helo=pettiford.lan) by mail.hugovil.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qfngG-0005zL-RE; Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:38:49 -0400 From: Hugo Villeneuve To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Sasha Levin , Jonathan Corbet Cc: hugo@hugovil.com, Hugo Villeneuve , stable@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:36:30 -0400 Message-Id: <20230911203628.20068-1-hugo@hugovil.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 70.80.174.168 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: hugo@hugovil.com Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation: stable: clarify patch series prerequisites X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 08 May 2019 21:11:16 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.hugovil.com) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Hugo Villeneuve Add some clarifications for patches that have dependencies within the patch series. Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve --- Changes since v1: rebase on latest torvalds/master Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) 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 =20 + 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 foll= owing + 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 usi= ng the following format in the sign-off area: =20 base-commit: 0bb80ecc33a8fb5a682236443c1e740d5c917d1d --=20 2.30.2