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stable: update documentation to ask for kernel version
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It would save me an email round-trip asking which stable tree(s) that a
patch should be applied to, so document that the tree number should be
specified in the email request.

Reported-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Jan 24, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree:

- Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to
stable@vger.kernel.org. You must note the upstream commit ID in the
changelog of your submission.
changelog of your submission, as well as the kernel version you wish
it to be applied to.
- To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to
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