From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:11:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101012141143.GA12143@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101012132511.GA24455@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:25:11AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Would it be possible to add commit 61afef614b013ee1b767cdd10325acae1db1f4d2
> "dm crypt: add plain64 iv" to -stable?
Which -stable tree? .27, .32, .35, or any/all of them? Please be more
specific when asking for this in the future.
> Without it, users of LTS kernels like 2.6.32 are missing important
> functionality (as in: might not be able to mount some LUKS volumes
> created on newer kernels).
Also note that this patch really looks like a "new feature", not a
bugfix or anything that matches up with what
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt defines. So I don't think that it
really is something to add to a stable kernel.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-12 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-12 13:25 dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-10-12 13:32 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-10-12 15:28 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-10-12 13:33 ` Milan Broz
2010-10-12 14:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-10-12 19:04 ` [stable] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-10-13 6:40 ` Greg KH
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