Re: Patch "iwlwifi: mvm: handle FRAME_RELEASE in MQ code" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

["gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 07:15:41AM +0000, Coelho, Luciano wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 08:47 +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 07:38:10AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 16:22 +0000, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > > 
> > > > ����iwlwifi: mvm: handle FRAME_RELEASE in MQ code
> > > > 
> > > > to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
> > > > ����http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue
> > > > .git;a=summary
> > > > 
> > > > The filename of the patch is:
> > > > �����iwlwifi-mvm-handle-frame_release-in-mq-code.patch
> > > > and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
> > > > 
> > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable
> > > > tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> > > 
> > > I have no particular objections to including this, but it only fixes
> > > something for (unreleased) hardware that will likely never work on the
> > > 4.7 kernel (due to also unreleased firmware, and likelihood of never
> > > releasing older firmware versions).
> > > 
> > > So there's almost certainly no point, but OTOH it also cannot possibly
> > > hurt since this code path is only taken with that particular hardware.
> > 
> > Ok, thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped it from the stable
> > queue.
> 
> Is there a way to mark the Fixes tag with the minimum kernel version as we would do e.g. with "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org�# 4.8+"?

The fixes tag is to show what commit it fixed.  And since you were
fixing a patch that is in the 4.7 release, you are implying that it is
resolving an issue for that kernel, right?

So just don't use the fixes: tag if that's not what you are really
doing.

thanks,

greg k-h