From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:58:37 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Greg KH , stable@vger.kernel.org, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pjones@redhat.com Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ibft fix for 3.2-rc6 Message-ID: <20111222205837.GA30956@kroah.com> References: <20111215210538.GA12248@konrad-lan> <20111216000716.GA14822@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 04:40:34PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > >> The patch as-is does not apply to 2.6.32, so I can't apply it there. �If > >> you want it applied there, please provide the backport to the above > >> mentioned email address. > > please check back ported patch for 2.6.36 to 2.6.39 Thanks, but I don't think these kernel versions are maintained by anyone anymore, sorry. > We don't need to this one for 2.6.32, because EFI/ACPI ibft detecting > is only added from 2.6.36. > > but 2.6.32 base kernel still could take iscsi_ibft.c related changes > in the patch, and ignore conflicts with iscs_ibft_find.c. > but that will add new feature to 2.6.32. Not sure if stable tree > should take that kind of change. No it will not, sorry. greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755972Ab1LVU71 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:59:27 -0500 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:46903 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752945Ab1LVU7Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:59:25 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 94ILx5hh2+OpsCAhV/AOg9YISeEAJHkGbmwHzqhw4HVN 1324587564 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:58:37 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Greg KH , stable@vger.kernel.org, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pjones@redhat.com Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ibft fix for 3.2-rc6 Message-ID: <20111222205837.GA30956@kroah.com> References: <20111215210538.GA12248@konrad-lan> <20111216000716.GA14822@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 04:40:34PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > >> The patch as-is does not apply to 2.6.32, so I can't apply it there.  If > >> you want it applied there, please provide the backport to the above > >> mentioned email address. > > please check back ported patch for 2.6.36 to 2.6.39 Thanks, but I don't think these kernel versions are maintained by anyone anymore, sorry. > We don't need to this one for 2.6.32, because EFI/ACPI ibft detecting > is only added from 2.6.36. > > but 2.6.32 base kernel still could take iscsi_ibft.c related changes > in the patch, and ignore conflicts with iscs_ibft_find.c. > but that will add new feature to 2.6.32. Not sure if stable tree > should take that kind of change. No it will not, sorry. greg k-h