notified and may provide a backported version
</li>
<li>
- Any commit in Linus's tree, or a fix for a stable-only
- regression, can be nominated by mail to this list, if it
+ Any commit in Linus's tree can be nominated by mail to this list, if it
meets the criteria - see
<a href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt"><tt>Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt</tt></a>
</li>
+ <li>
+ Occasional regression fix in stable without a corresponding
+ commit in Linus's tree, because the change that regressed was
+ OK in mainline
+ </li>
</ul>
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