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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Kashyap, Desai" <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, Sathya.Prakash@lsi.com,
	Eric.Moore@lsi.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 04/06] mptfusion: mptctl_release is required in mptctl.c
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:19:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203171930.GA11533@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110203100250.GE23502@lsi.com>

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:33:00PM +0530, Kashyap, Desai wrote:
> 
> Added missing release callback for file_operations mptctl_fops.
> Without release callback there will be never freed. It remains on 
> mptctl's eent list even after the file is closed and released.
> 
> Relavent RHEL bugzilla is 660871
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
> ---

<snip>

This is NOT the way to get patches into a stable kernel release.  Please
read the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do it
properly.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-03 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-03 10:03 [PATCH 04/06] mptfusion: mptctl_release is required in mptctl.c Kashyap, Desai
2011-02-03 17:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-02-04  6:50   ` Desai, Kashyap
2011-02-04 14:50     ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-02-04 14:53     ` James Bottomley

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