From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] atm: expose ATM device index in sysfs Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:06:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20110526190651.GA7627@kroah.com> References: <1306432057.3151.10.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Chas Williams , David Woodhouse , stable@kernel.org To: Dan Williams Return-path: Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:44158 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758012Ab1EZTFy (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2011 15:05:54 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1306432057.3151.10.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:47:36PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > It's current exposed only through /proc which besides requiring > screen-scraping doesn't allow userspace to distinguish between two > identical ATM adapters with different ATM indexes. The ATM device index > is required when using PPPoATM on a system with multiple ATM adapters. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams > --- > > PS: -> stable too since it's a minimal change with no backwards > incompatibility and I'd like to rely on this attribute in NetworkManager This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly.