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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] Submit commit 3dea642afd for 2.6.38.stable?
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:27:27 -0700
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To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:45:15PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> James:
> 
> Your commit 3dea642afd9187728d119fce5c82a7ed9faa9b6a ([SCSI] Revert
> "[SCSI] Retrieve the Caching mode page") hasn't been submitted for the
> 2.6.38 stable tree.  More people are now getting hit with the
> underlying problem; see
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35042
> 
> Do you want to queue your commit to the stable tree, or do you prefer
> to wait until the proper repair patch:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=130089710431684&w=2
> 
> has been merged so it can go into the stable tree instead?
> 
> Alan Stern
> 
> P.S.: As of now, the scsi-next tree doesn't show any signs of
> reinstating Luben's original commit together with my repair patch.  
> Does this mean you intend to forget about the original "Retrieve the
> Caching mode page" change, or do you intend to merge them for 2.6.41?)

James, any ideas?

thanks,

greg k-h