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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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Luke Dashjr 2015-05-14 18:58:01 +00:00 • committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this:
Cc: [email protected]
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