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Update stable tree documentation

Update the documentation for the stable tree rules to reflect
that device IDs and quirks are also suitable for -stable
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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Josh Boyer and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
··· 12 12 marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real 13 13 security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short, something 14 14 critical. 15 + - New device IDs and quirks are also accepted. 15 16 - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how the 16 17 race can be exploited is also provided. 17 18 - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,