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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:38:48 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov@selfip.ru>
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Subject: Re: infiniband fix IB/ipoib: move back the IB LL address into the
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 05:12:35PM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> Hi! I have 4.4.34 kernel and have regression is like on IB/ipoib: move
> back the IB LL address into the hard header patch.
> But as i see 4.4.44 does not have this fix. When this not goes to stable?

You are going to have to be a lot more specific here, what exact commit
in Linus's tree are you referring to?

Why not cc: the authors of that patch and the maintainer of that
subsystem?

Have you read the kernel file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt?

thanks,

greg k-h