Re: [PATCH for-4.14] Fix spelling errors.

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 01.12.2020 15:42, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Only spelling errors; no functional changes.
> 
> In docs/misc/dump-core-format.txt there are a few more instances of
> 'informations'. I'll leave that up to someone who can properly determine
> how those sentences should be constructed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> I incorporated the remarks by Jan Beulich that were made for the patch
> targeted at the master branch. Other then that, they're the exact same 
> changes although for libxl_stream_read.c the path was updated to match 
> the stable-4.14 branch.

I'm afraid this isn't the kind of change we'd be backporting, unless
you have a very good justification for a respective request. The
widest of a scope of such a backport that I'd see remotely possible
is when just documentation would get touched.

Also, process-wise, there wouldn't normally be patches sent to the
list for the stable trees. Exceptions are when the backporting is
non-trivial, or when something needs fixing there that doesn't
exist anymore in newer code. In all other cases it would simply be
a request to backport a certain change, possibly directly embedded
in the original submission (e.g. by means of a Fixes: tag).

Jan