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docs: stable-kernel-rules: call mainline by its name and change example

Fine-tuning:

* s/Linus' tree/Linux mainline/, as mainline is the term used elsewhere
in the document.

* Provide a better example for the 'delayed backporting' case that uses
a fixed rather than a relative reference point, which makes it easier
to handle for the stable team.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0a120573ea827aee12d45e7bd802ba85c09884da.1714367921.git.linux@leemhuis.info

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Thorsten Leemhuis and committed by
Jonathan Corbet 2263c40e db483303

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Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
··· 6 6 Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the 7 7 "-stable" tree: 8 8 9 - - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream). 9 + - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linux mainline (upstream). 10 10 - It must be obviously correct and tested. 11 11 - It cannot be bigger than 100 lines, with context. 12 12 - It must follow the ··· 134 134 135 135 .. code-block:: none 136 136 137 - Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # after 4 weeks in mainline 137 + Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # after -rc3 138 138 139 139 * Point out known problems: 140 140