Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:32:01 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] v3.0.x: mtd: check partition count not partition array pointer |
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Anthony Foiani wrote: > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes: > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > > stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > > for how to do this properly. > > My checklist against stable_kernel_rules.txt is below. > > I could only find two reasons why you are saying this is incorrect: > > 1. There is no matching upstream commit; or
This is an obvious one, it needs to be upstream first.
Or if not, a whole lot of explaination saying that you know it isn't, and why it isn't, and why it isn't applicable there, including agreement from the subsystem maintainers saying that they agree with you.
thanks,
greg k-h
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