backporting stable fixes to staging after driver graduation

Winkler, Tomas tomas.winkler at intel.com
Tue May 20 12:38:52 UTC 2014


> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 02:17:26PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > I'd like to ask what is the policy for back porting fixes for  drivers
> > that already graduated from staging but the fix is needed in kernel
> > version where it is still in the staging.
> 
> Same as anything else, just provide the backported patch to
> stable at vger.kernel.org, and say it has been changed due to the file
> rename/movement.
> 
> thanks,
> 
Thanks
Tomas


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