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    docs: stable-kernel-rules: make rule section more straight forward · 33568553
    Thorsten Leemhuis authored
    Tweak some of the rule text to make things more straight forward, with
    the goal to stick closely to the intend of the old text:
    
    * put the "it or equivalent fix must be upstream" rule at the top, as
      it's one of the most important ones that at the same time often seems
      to be missed by developers.
    * "It must fix only one thing" was dropped, as that is almost always a
      thing that needs to be handled earlier when the change is mainlined.
      Furthermore, this is already indirectly covered by the "Separate your
      changes" section in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst which
      the rules already point to.
    * six other rules are in the end one rule with clarifications; structure
      the text accordingly to make it a lot easier to follow and understand
      the intend.
    * drop the 'In short, something critical' from one of those notes: it
      contradicts the "real bug that bothers people" aspect somewhat and does
      not really add anything
    
    CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    CC: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
    CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f83e812879caa978a51a1a7cae7c359f29fc093c.1689056247.git.linux@leemhuis.infoSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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