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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: hekuang@huawei.com, peterz@infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] module: weaken locking assertion for oops path." failed to apply to 4.1-stable tree
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:57:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150815155725.GA25186@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oai9qlct.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 01:00:42PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> gregkh@linuxfoundation.org writes:
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.1-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
>         That's OK.  But a question: this was implied by the Fixes: tag;
> is there a better way to say "you need this IFF you have that"?

You did it correctly, it was just odd to see something marked for stable
for a fixes tag of something that showed up in 4.2-rc1, so I thought it
was prudent to let you know this didn't apply.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2015-08-15 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-14  1:15 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] module: weaken locking assertion for oops path." failed to apply to 4.1-stable tree gregkh
2015-08-15  3:30 ` Rusty Russell
2015-08-15 15:57   ` Greg KH [this message]

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