Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix regression that triggers a kernel BUG with CCMP

[Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@raritan.com>]

On 06.11.2014 13:39, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 13:34 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> On 06-11-14 11:02, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> Oh, regarding Cc stable - don't actually send the mail there if you can
>>> help it.
>>
>> What do you mean? Are you saying: It must be tagged, but 'git
>> send-email' should not actually add the Cc field in the mail header.
>> What is the story here? Guess I missed a memo ;-)
>
> As far as I remember Greg just ignores the patches sent to the list and
> picks them up when they hit Linus's tree instead (i.e. follows the
> commit logs with like 'git log --grep "Cc: stable"') so there's no value
> in actually sending out email, it's just noise.
>
> So far it has worked for me, so I think it must be right :)

But there are LTS kernels not maintained by Greg like 3.12 and 3.16. How 
about these? If sending patches to stable@kernel org is optional then 
it's better to kill that list or silently drop emails send to this list 
so no errors are returned for this address.

- ron

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