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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-03-15 10:43:49 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-03-15 10:43:49 +0300
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Merge 5.12-rc3 into tty-next
Resolves a merge issue with: drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c and we want the tty/serial fixes from 5.12-rc3 in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst5
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
index 3973556250e1..003c865e9c21 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
@@ -35,12 +35,6 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree
----------------------------------------------------
- - If the patch covers files in net/ or drivers/net please follow netdev stable
- submission guidelines as described in
- :ref:`Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst <netdev-FAQ>`
- after first checking the stable networking queue at
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/bundle/netdev/stable/?state=*
- to ensure the requested patch is not already queued up.
- Security patches should not be handled (solely) by the -stable review
process but should follow the procedures in
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/security-bugs.rst <securitybugs>`.
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index 8c991c863628..91de63b201c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -250,11 +250,6 @@ should also read
:ref:`Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst <stable_kernel_rules>`
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
-maintainer, in particular, would rather not see individual developers
-adding lines like the above to their patches.
-
If changes affect userland-kernel interfaces, please send the MAN-PAGES
maintainer (as listed in the MAINTAINERS file) a man-pages patch, or at
least a notification of the change, so that some information makes its way