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Commit 6c19ef5c authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
parent f4f89c49
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Tags v4.2.0-rc4
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......@@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ a maintainer tree)
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
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- 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
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