Document that changes intended for a specific stable series have to be
in all newer series still maintained, as otherwise users would run into
regressions.
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ddb5cb0d6b7aa4ef31642cd9657a0fb53d79cddb.1691219455.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* various fine tuning to the text that cleans up rough edges the three
previous preparatory patches left behind to keep the diffs simpler
* s/Linus' tree/mainline/g, as that's the term more commonly used and
known
* create a short intro for the three submission options and streamline
the explanation when to use which of them
* fix a >= vs <= thinko in an example to make it more straight forward
* there were two blank lines before some sub-headings and just one
before others; use the former style everywhere
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e1960a70acae2c2f18b838aee9f8bf6055fae89b.1691219455.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Separate the description for option 1 and the examples how to use it by
making the latter an indented unordered list.
No text changes.
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/59deaabfabf0629d7cf2a52b196cec19d1f9ec47.1691219455.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Move the short description about when to use which of the submission
options to the top of the section, as it currently sits somewhat odd in
the middle between option 3 and examples of option 1.
Also move the examples of Option 1 into the section describing it (which
in the diff looks like option 2 and 3 are moving down).
No text changes, just moving it around.
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/16f2377ee40dd7dfa146727fcbe7d1ebccf5b5be.1691219455.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* replace a needless sub-heading with a short intro sentence
* make "Following the submission" a proper sub-section with a headline
without changing the text of the section
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0737676f951050b2ec39e1662ffea37d77ef0bec.1691219455.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tweak some of the rule text to make things more straight forward, with
the goal to stick closely to the intend of the old text:
* put the "it or equivalent fix must be upstream" rule at the top, as
it's one of the most important ones that at the same time often seems
to be missed by developers.
* "It must fix only one thing" was dropped, as that is almost always a
thing that needs to be handled earlier when the change is mainlined.
Furthermore, this is already indirectly covered by the "Separate your
changes" section in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst which
the rules already point to.
* six other rules are in the end one rule with clarifications; structure
the text accordingly to make it a lot easier to follow and understand
the intend.
* drop the 'In short, something critical' from one of those notes: it
contradicts the "real bug that bothers people" aspect somewhat and does
not really add anything
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f83e812879caa978a51a1a7cae7c359f29fc093c.1689056247.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Document how to delay backporting or send a note to the stable team
using shell-style inline comments attached to stable tags.
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bf1489b40ff358b7cb4f7d8cc73d5c7c3c143471.1689056247.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Jiri Kosina, Jonathan Corbet, and Willy Tarreau all expressed a desire
to move this document under process/.
Create a new section for security issues in the index and group it with
embargoed-hardware-issues.
I'm doing this at the start of the series to make all the subsequent
changes show up in 'git blame'.
Existing references were updated using:
git grep -l security-bugs ':!Documentation/translations/' | xargs sed -i 's|admin-guide/security-bugs|process/security-bugs|g'
git grep -l security-bugs Documentation/translations/ | xargs sed -i 's|Documentation/admin-guide/security-bugs|Documentation/process/security-bugs|g'
git grep -l security-bugs Documentation/translations/ | xargs sed -i '/Original:/s|\.\./admin-guide/security-bugs|\.\./process/security-bugs|g'
Notably, the page is not moved in the translations (due to my lack of
knowledge of these languages), but the translations have been updated
to point to the new location of the original document where these
references exist.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nycvar.YFH.7.76.2206062326230.10851@cbobk.fhfr.pm/
Suggested-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Cc: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn>
Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeimi Lee <jamee.lee@samsung.com>
Cc: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230305220010.20895-2-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Additionally to the "commit <sha1> upstream." variant, "[ Upstream
commit <sha1> ]" is used as well as alternative to refer to the upstream
commit hash.
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901184328.4075701-1-carnil@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In recent times, the review cycle for stable releases have been changed.
In particular, there is release candidate phase between ACKing patches
and new stable release. Also, in case of failed submissions (fail to
apply to stable tree), manual backport (Option 3) have to be submitted
instead.
Update the release cycle documentation on stable-kernel-rules.rst to
reflect the above.
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-4-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There is also stable release candidate tree. Mention it, however with a
warning that the tree is for testing purposes.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-5-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Security patches have different handling than rest of patches for
review.
Enclose note paragraph about such patches in `.. note::` block.
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Move to the kernel.org patchwork instance, it has significantly
lower latency for accessing from Europe and the US. Other quirks
include the reply bot.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201110035120.642746-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The networking maintainer keeps a public list of the patches being
queued up for the next round of stable releases. Be sure to check there
before asking for a patch to be applied so that you do not waste
people's time.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Keep consistent the document. In the document, option references
are always linked, except for the one I fixed with this patch
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
File 'Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt' has been converted to RST
format. We should update all links/references to point to the new file.
Update references to netdev-FAQ
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
git.kernel.org links don't work (fatal: repository ... not found).
Update them with the current style from https://git.kernel.org
There is no HTTP option, so also switch HTTP -> HTTPS.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Bordunov <andrew.bordunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
A patch documenting how to specify which kernels a particular fix should
be backported to (seemingly) inadvertently added a minus sign after the
kernel version. This particular stable-tag format had never been used
prior to this patch, and was neither present when the patch in question
was first submitted (it was added in v2 without any comment).
Drop the minus sign to avoid any confusion.
Fixes: fdc81b7910 ("stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch.")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Add several documents to the development-process ReST book.
As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those
documents on their original place.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Thorsten Leemhuis