From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755479AbbDUO2c (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:28:32 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:58478 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752112AbbDUO22 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:28:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:28:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: "Yu, Fenghua" cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , "Mallick, Asit K" , "Hansen, Dave" , "Williamson, Glenn P" , linux-kernel , x86 Subject: RE: [PATCH Bugfix 1/4] x86/xsave.c: Fix xstate offsets and sizes enumeration In-Reply-To: <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C712205C8C5C7F@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <1429387928-28179-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C712205C8C5C7F@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Yu, Fenghua wrote: > > This is a regular hardware enablement or are you saying that this is backport > > material? > > I would like the patch to be backported to distros or stable kernel because > we may really see the issue in near future if it's not backported. Then you should clearly explain that in a 0/N cover mail which describes the scope and impact of the patch series. That way more useful than a screaming BUGFIX prefix. Thanks, tglx