On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Torsten Schenk torsten.schenk@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@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@kernel.org [3.0+]

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

Daniel

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:16:27PM +0200, Torsten Schenk wrote:

Please fix your mailer to word wrap within paragraphs.

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@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)?

What's the actual patch? Cc stable is the way to get patches picked up for the stable kernel, if you want to limit the backports putting a note in the changelog is probably sensible.