From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
"iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>, Mike Habeck <habeck@sgi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/7] Intel pci: Check for identity mapping candidate using system dma mask
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 17:59:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110527095911.GA9272@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110527094209.GB27062@amd.com>
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:42:09AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 05:30:42AM -0400, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >
> > > <formletter>
> > >
> > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> > > stable kernel tree. Please read
> > > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly.
> > >
> > > </formletter>
> > >
> > > I'll not send this out for the other 6 patches that also do not
> > > follow the proper format, as I'm sure you would get bored reading
> > > them.
> >
> > None of these patches exist upstream yet so it will take some time
> > until any of this can touch -stable. You can ignore it safely for
> > now.
> >
> > Mike: please add proposed stable Cc: tags in the patch only, never
> > send it out to the stable email address itself!!
>
> Well, with the Cc: tag git-send-email will Cc it automatically if not
> done by the user explicitly.
And that's fine, I don't object to that at all, and it makes life easier
for me as I know it is coming eventually, and I try to watch out for it
in case the subsystem maintainer forgets to apply it.
It's when the Cc: in the signed-off-area is not there that my
form-letter kicks in to advise people that they are doing something
wrong and that their patch will not get applied to the stable tree this
way.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-27 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-27 1:32 [PATCH 0/7] Intel pci: Fix various problems with Intel IOMMU code Mike Travis
2011-05-27 1:32 ` [PATCH 1/7] Intel pci: Check for identity mapping candidate using system dma mask Mike Travis
2011-05-27 7:18 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-05-27 9:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-27 9:42 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-05-27 9:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-05-27 1:32 ` [PATCH 2/7] Intel pci: Speed up processing of the identity_mapping function Mike Travis
2011-05-27 1:32 ` [PATCH 3/7] Intel pci: Dont cache iova above 32bit Mike Travis
2011-05-27 1:32 ` [PATCH 4/7] Intel pci: Use coherent DMA mask when requested Mike Travis
2011-05-27 1:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] Intel pci: Remove Host Bridge devices from identity mapping Mike Travis
2011-05-27 1:32 ` [PATCH 6/7] Intel pci: Add domain check in domain_remove_one_dev_info Mike Travis
2011-05-27 1:32 ` [PATCH 7/7] Intel pci: Indicate 64-bit IOMMU passthrough available Mike Travis
2011-05-27 15:01 ` David Woodhouse
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