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Documentation: -stable rules: upstream commit ID requirement reworded

It is a hard requirement to include the upstream commit ID in the
changelog of a -stable submission, not just a courtesy to the stable
team. This concerns only mail submission though, which is no longer
the only way into stable. (Also, fix a double "the".)

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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Stefan Richter and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
··· 18 18 - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes, 19 19 whitespace cleanups, etc). 20 20 - It must follow the Documentation/SubmittingPatches rules. 21 - - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree. Quote the 22 - respective commit ID in Linus' tree in your patch submission to -stable. 21 + - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream). 23 22 24 23 25 24 Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree: 26 25 27 26 - Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to 28 - stable@kernel.org. 29 - - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the 30 - the tag 27 + stable@kernel.org. You must note the upstream commit ID in the changelog 28 + of your submission. 29 + - To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag 31 30 Cc: stable@kernel.org 32 31 in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to 33 32 the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author