From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH stable v3.2 v3.4] ipv4: disable bh while doing route gc Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:39:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20141020.113942.494881588483054629.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1413774581.31953.12.camel@decadent.org.uk> <20141020.002308.1276148768580405795.davem@davemloft.net> <1413807808.31953.24.camel@decadent.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mleitner@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, hannes@stressinduktion.org To: ben@decadent.org.uk Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1413807808.31953.24.camel@decadent.org.uk> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Ben Hutchings Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:23:28 +0100 > On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 00:23 -0400, David Miller wrote: >> From: Ben Hutchings >> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:09:41 +0100 >> >> > I've appplied this and the previous two patches mentioned ('ipv4: move >> > route garbage collector to work queue' and 'ipv4: avoid parallel route >> > cache gc executions'). But I didn't get the other two from you. The >> > last batch of networking fixes I received and applied was dated >> > 2014-08-07, and the next one I've seen is dated 2014-10-11 and has >> > nothing for 3.2 or 3.4. Did I miss one between these? >> >> I'm at the point where I'm personally not going to go back more than >> four releases, anything more than that is rediculous. >> >> And this time that was 3.17, 3.16, 3.14, and 3.10 > > OK. I appreciate all the work you've done to backport to 3.2, but would > also have appreciated an explicit note to say you were dropping the > earlier versions. My apologies, but as time goes on and more -stable releases go active I will certainly be tail dropping to keep it within 4 releases.