Mesa (master): docs: Document interaction Fixes tag and stable branches.

[Bas Nieuwenhuizen]

Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 566f2ed5716297ce60ca10c57aeddc406835c430
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=566f2ed5716297ce60ca10c57aeddc406835c430

Author: Bas Nieuwenhuizen <bas at basnieuwenhuizen.nl>
Date:   Fri Apr 14 23:39:15 2017 +0200

docs: Document interaction Fixes tag and stable branches.

For the next time I forget.

Signed-off-by: Bas Nieuwenhuizen <basni at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>

---

 docs/submittingpatches.html | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.html b/docs/submittingpatches.html
index 5310b1d8c1..ecf9590a95 100644
--- a/docs/submittingpatches.html
+++ b/docs/submittingpatches.html
@@ -266,6 +266,10 @@ Note: by removing the tag [as the commit is pushed] the patch is
 Thus, drop the line <strong>only</strong> if you want to cancel the nomination.
 </p>
 
+Alternatively, if one uses the "Fixes" tag as described in the "Patch formatting"
+section, it nominates a commit for all active stable branches that include the
+commit that is referred to.
+
 <h2 id="criteria">Criteria for accepting patches to the stable branch</h2>
 
 Mesa has a designated release manager for each stable branch, and the release