Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] Add file describing rules for submitting patches

[Anthony Liguori]

Andreas Färber wrote:
> 4.5. -- I'd suspect that for most patches for STABLE it's not 
> necessary to send them twice, once against the stable branch, when 
> they can easily be cherry-picked or patch -p1'ed. Please consider 
> "should" or "must ... if it differs from devel branch" there.

I consider all patches for the stable branch.  [STABLE] is just a hint 
as far as I'm concerned.  If a set of patches are too difficult to apply 
to the stable branch, I reserve the right to bounce the series, even for 
trunk, asking for two submissions but then again, if this ever happened, 
it suggests that either we need a new release (because things have 
changed too much since the last release) or that the patch probably 
shouldn't be in stable.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori