On Tuesday 19 June 2012 00:41:40 David Miller wrote: [....]
You must only make stable submissions for patches that have made their way into Linus's tree.
That is correct. These patches were meant to be sent as reply to the patch you pulled today (that contained the initial Cc: stable@...). These were sent to avoid the cherry-pick of feature patches necessary to merge it and still give an idea how these versions could be fixed after the mentioned commit hit Linus' tree.
Somebody forgot the set the In-Reply-To:.. that made these mails missing the right context.
But we were wondering how to handle this situation anyway. The stable_kernel_rules.txt didn't gave us the correct information (or we did not understand them correctly) how to submit backported patches for affected kernels. Are there some general rules that we should be aware of?
Thanks, Sven