[alsa-devel] submitting patch: specify destination kernel version(s)

[Daniel Mack]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Torsten Schenk <torsten.schenk at zoho.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently preparing a patch for the kernel, I want it to be included from 3.0 on, but not in versions before. I once got a hint to put
>
> Cc: stable at kernel.org
>
> but that seems not to do the trick. How could it be achieved, that the patch only appears in 3.0 (and later)?
>

This is not really officially documented, but there seems to be a
general agreement that this line should do what you want:

  Cc: stable at kernel.org [3.0+]

At least, other patches were submitted that way. Greg, is that correct?


Daniel