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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b03a832a08e2..27e7e5edeca8 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -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 |