Commit 67fe6792 authored by Salvatore Bonaccorso's avatar Salvatore Bonaccorso Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation: stable: Document alternative for referring upstream commit hash 



Additionally to the "commit <sha1> upstream." variant, "[ Upstream
commit <sha1> ]" is used as well as alternative to refer to the upstream
commit hash.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901184328.4075701-1-carnil@debian.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 8bfdfa0d

Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst

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    commit <sha1> upstream.



or alternatively:



.. code-block:: none



    [ Upstream commit <sha1> ]



Additionally, some patches submitted via :ref:`option_1` may have additional

patch prerequisites which can be cherry-picked. This can be specified in the

following format in the sign-off area: