From 6c19ef5cf8db39ebbc8644cf16ebf40587138201 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:42:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ANDROID: README.md: document FROMLIST not being allowed for rejected changes Recently, multiple patch series have been submitted to Android kernels with the FROMLIST: tag, despite them containing changes that have been rejected by the upstream community, sometimes many years ago. FROMLIST is to be used for things that have a chance to be accepted upstream, or for work-in-progress changes, NOT for rejected submissions, as using this tag should not hide this rejection state. Bug: 391973735 Change-Id: I2e73d43dd780c01e9cfd6d1f249c1c9eebcf1a3d Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 982f1a7149bb..f28f6771e488 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ a maintainer tree) Signed-off-by: Joe Smith ``` +- If a patch has been submitted to the community, but rejected, do NOT use the + `FROMLIST:` tag to try to hide this fact. Use the `ANDROID:` tag as + described below as this must be considered as an Android-specific submission, + not an upstream submission as the community will not accept these changes + as-is. + ## Requirements for Android-specific patches: `ANDROID:` - If the patch is fixing a bug to Android-specific code