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On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 11:15 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:

> That is what we do when backporting patches, I can do that if David asks
> me to backport it, but you know for netdev that is David's work.
> 
> (I am not saying I don't want to help him, I just want to point out the fact.
> I am very pleased to help David for stable backports as long as he asks)

Problem is : your patch submission do not identify bug origin.

You claim you want to help, but you do not provide the basic thing that
_really_ helps.

The proper way to identify bug origin is to add in the headers one
line :

Fixes: 12-digit-SHA1 ("patch title")