From jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mon Oct 27 11:43:29 2008 From: Josh Boyer Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:10:42 -0400 Subject: Update stable tree documentation To: greg@kroah.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20081024141042.GB2299@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org> Content-Disposition: inline Update the documentation for the stable tree rules to reflect that device IDs and quirks are also suitable for -stable kernels. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt +++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accept marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short, something critical. + - New device IDs and quirks are also accepted. - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how the race can be exploited is also provided. - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,