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Re: Suppressing auto-cc for specific addresses

From
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date
Aug 7, 2011, 23:46 UTC
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<20110807234634.GA3236@kroah.com>
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On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 10:20:26PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to suppress certain Cc: fields that are
> normally automatically added for addresses mentioned in Cc: lines
> found in patches.
> 
> In particular, the kernel rules for marking patches for stable
> release inclusion wants users to add a "Cc: stable@kernel.org" line
> in the patch itself but to not actually send a copy of that patch to
> that address. It will be picked automatically once the patch was
> applied upstream.

There is no "rule" that says you can not send a copy of the patch to stable@kernel.org, in fact that happens a lot and is fine and I have no problem with that at all.

So please don't feel that you have to do anything different here with git to properly follow the stable kernel rules, there should not be any need.

thanks,
greg k-h
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  2. Greg KHAug 7, 2011
  3. Daniel MackAug 8, 2011
  4. Jonathan NiederAug 8, 2011
  5. Joe PerchesAug 9, 2011
  6. Daniel MackAug 8, 2011
  7. Jeff KingAug 8, 2011
  8. Daniel MackAug 8, 2011
  9. Greg KHAug 8, 2011
  10. Jonathan NiederAug 8, 2011
  11. Jeff KingAug 9, 2011
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