Comment # 14 on bug 1049599 from Takashi Iwai

(In reply to Coly Li from comment #12)
> (In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #11)
> > (In reply to Coly Li from comment #10)
> > > (In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #9)
> > > > (In reply to Coly Li from comment #7)
> > > > > Let me have a look on this, please give me some hint. Should I get kernel
> > > > > source from branch origin/openSUSE-42.3 ?
> > > > 
> > > > The bug was detected on 4.12, i.e. stable branch.
> > > 
> > > Hi Takashi,
> > > 
> > > Get it. There are two questions more from me,
> > > 1) The fix is not upstream yet, can I submit it to stable branch now?
> > 
> > Well, is there any reason you can't submit to upstream?  If not, at least,
> > please submit the patch.
> > An in-house patch can be applied to our kernel, but we really should try to
> > follow our own "upstream-first" rule.
> > 
> 
> Because I see the branch name is stable. A rule for stable tree is patch
> should go into mainline kernel firstly, then go into stable. This patch is
> in md development tree, I guess it will still take some time for it going
> into 4.12 stable tree. So is it Okey for me to submit this patch into stable
> branch of openSUSE kernel ?

Yes, it's fine as long as you care about the upstreaming and updating the patch
meta data accordingly.