From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
<f.wiessner@smart-weblications.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, liquidhorse@gmail.com, andy@greyhouse.net,
fubar@us.ibm.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, nikolay@redhat.com, vfalico@redhat.com
Subject: Re: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 12:06:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130522190640.GA20276@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519D0B79.6010307@smart-weblications.de>
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:16:25PM +0200, Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Am 22.05.2013 18:23, schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:16:11PM +0200, Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner wrote:
> >> Am 22.05.2013 15:57, schrieb Greg KH:
> >>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:36:09PM +0200, Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> why is this patch still not backported to 3.4?
> >>>>
> >>>> I today tried 3.4.46 from kernel.org, but the patch STILL seems _NOT_ included?
> >>>>
> >>>> WHY IS THAT?
> >>>
> >>> <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 don't want to submit a patch - i wanted to know why this patch still is not in
> >> the kernel (it is afaics at least 6 months old!)
> >
> > Perhaps because it was not submitted properly as documented above?
> >
>
> Well, i don't know. I have not written that patch, but tested and applied it
> against 3.4.36 where it worked fine.
>
> But i am unable to apply it to 3.4.46 (there are rejects if i try to apply it,
> obviously because there were changes in the meanwhile) - It would be cool if
> someone could tell if that patch is really needed anymore with 3.4.46.
>
> I am no C coder and only have little C experience, but i'd like to use this
> patch with current 3.4 stable Kernel or at least make sure that this patch is
> not needed anymore with current stable kernels...
Why do you think that it is needed? And does it match up to a specific
change that is already in Linus's tree? That is a requirement here.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-22 11:36 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-05-22 13:57 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Greg KH
2013-05-22 16:16 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-05-22 16:23 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Greg KH
2013-05-22 18:16 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-05-22 19:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-05-22 19:35 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-05-22 20:04 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Greg KH
2013-05-22 21:26 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-05-22 21:54 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Jay Vosburgh
2013-05-22 22:24 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-05-22 22:32 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Greg KH
2013-05-22 23:17 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Matthew O'Connor
2013-05-23 10:24 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-05-23 12:35 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Matthew O'Connor
2013-05-23 13:36 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-05-23 12:46 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Matthew O'Connor
2013-05-29 1:01 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-05-29 1:10 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 David Miller
2013-05-29 1:15 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Greg KH
2013-06-13 1:15 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Ben Hutchings
2013-06-18 11:47 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
2013-06-18 17:23 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Matthew O'Connor
2013-06-20 15:59 ` https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
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