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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300
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@@ -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