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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 447671bd2927..27e7e5edeca8 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ toward the stable maintainers by putting a line like this: Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org -into your patch. +into the sign-off area of your patch (note, NOT an email recipient). You +should also read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in addition to this +file. Note, however, that some subsystem maintainers want to come to their own conclusions on which patches should go to the stable trees. The networking @@ -614,8 +616,8 @@ The canonical patch message body contains the following: - An empty line. - - The body of the explanation, which will be copied to the - permanent changelog to describe this patch. + - The body of the explanation, line wrapped at 75 columns, which will + be copied to the permanent changelog to describe this patch. - The "Signed-off-by:" lines, described above, which will also go in the changelog. |