Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg
since
cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch
maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <
20251022034336.22839-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
are serious.
Once a stable release is made, its ongoing maintenance is passed off to the
-"stable team," currently Greg Kroah-Hartman. The stable team will release
-occasional updates to the stable release using the 9.x.y numbering scheme.
+"stable team," currently consists of Greg Kroah-Hartman and Sasha Levin. The
+stable team will release occasional updates to the stable release using the
+9.x.y numbering scheme.
+
To be considered for an update release, a patch must (1) fix a significant
bug, and (2) already be merged into the mainline for the next development
kernel. Kernels will typically receive stable updates for a little more