On 01/12/20 12:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
If you look at the section onhttps://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html that starts with "Additionally, some patches..." it will show that you can add "#" comments on the cc: stable line to let me know pre-requsite commits if you know them, and want to do that in the future.
Yeah, I guess that one applies even if it was submitted in the same pull request. I have used it in the past but not for patches that were submitted in the same pull request, so in this case I should have marked patch 2 like this:
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4.x: 123456: kvm: patch 1 in the series Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4.x
instead of marking both patches with just "Cc: stable". Upstream commit fcb3a1ab79904d54499db77017793ccca665eb7e is one case in which Rafael did this.
Paolo