[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Check that the relocation points to within the target

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:21:27AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:19:30 +0100
> Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Excerpts from Jesse Barnes's message of Thu Sep 10 00:27:24 +0100
> > 2009:
> > > Should these fixes also be cc'd to the stable team
> > > (stable at kernel.org)?
> > 
> > What is the correct protocol here? Should I CC the stable team on such
> > 'trivial' patches, which means that they receive a copy of the patch
> > before everyone (and Eric in particular) has had a chance to review
> > it? -ickle
> 
> The stable team won't apply it until it hits Linus's tree.  But yeah,
> any important bug fix that also applies to the last released kernel
> should be cc'd to stable.

Just add a:
	Cc: stable <stable at kernel.org>
to the signed-off-by: area of a patch, and when it is merged into
Linus's tree, the stable team will be automatically notified of it, and
will queue it up for the next -stable kernel with no extra work needed
by you at all.

thanks,

greg k-h