From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752809Ab3CFCLE (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 21:11:04 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:53260 "EHLO mail-pb0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750712Ab3CFCK7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 21:10:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:11:07 +0800 From: Greg KH To: Sarah Sharp Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Matthias Schniedermeyer , Holger =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hoffst=E4tte?= , Jonathan Nieder , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Tilman Schmidt , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Subject: Re: Stable backport request, Was: Re: [regression] external HDD in USB3 enclosure cannot be dynamically removed (Re: Linux 3.7.5) Message-ID: <20130306021107.GA8747@kroah.com> References: <20130212204224.GC8427@xanatos> <511B4EB1.9010708@googlemail.com> <20130213171656.GA9318@citd.de> <20130213193303.GH8427@xanatos> <20130213200413.GA17648@citd.de> <20130213210846.GI8427@xanatos> <20130213213129.GA10288@kroah.com> <20130213221250.GJ8427@xanatos> <20130301164839.GA5435@kroah.com> <20130305221050.GC8339@xanatos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130305221050.GC8339@xanatos> 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 Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:10:50PM -0800, Sarah Sharp wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:48:39AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:12:50PM -0800, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:31:29PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:08:46PM -0800, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:04:13PM +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > > > > On 13.02.2013 11:33, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > > > Greg, > > > > > > > > > > How do you want to handle this? The above four patches should go into > > > > > 3.8 and stable, but they're not currently in Linus' tree and it's > > > > > probably too late in the cycle to merge them this week. Should we just > > > > > wait until 3.9 is out and put the patches into the stable trees then? > > > > > > > > > My email shows that the bad commit > > > > > f7965c0846d74b270e246c1470ca955d5078eb07 has been added to the 3.2, 3.4, > > > > > and 3.7 stable trees, as well as Canonical's 3.7 stable tree. I'm also > > > > > fine with just reverting that commit from 3.8 and stable. > > > > > > > > It's probably easier at this point in time to just revert that commit, > > > > leave the stable kernels alone, and then everything will be fixed in > > > > 3.9. When the commits go into Linus's tree, we can backport everything > > > > to the stable releases (including 3.8.1) at that point. > > > > > > > > As long as someone remembers to send the needed information to > > > > stable@vger.kernel.org, I know I'll forget :) > > > > > > > > Sound ok? > > > > > > Yep, sounds fine. I'll attempt to remember to send email to stable once > > > 3.9 is out. > > > > Did this happen yet? > > Nope. Here's the upstream commit IDs of the patches that need to be > backported to stable. Let me know if you need them in patch form: > > d3b9d7a9051d7024a93c76a84b2f84b3b66ad6d5 USB: Fix connected device switch to Inactive state. As this first patch doesn't apply to the 3.8-stable tree, and I can't figure out how to fix it to work properly, I am going to need these in patch forme, sorry. thanks, greg k-h