Re: [PATCH for-4.19 0/3] Backport of series: 'sched: A few small fixes for sch_cake' from 5.1

["Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>]

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 02:13:18PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 12:28:21PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> >> Hi Greg
>> >> 
>> >> This series contains backports for a couple of fixes to sch_cake that was just
>> >> merged for 5.1. This series backports an earlier refactoring commit, which makes
>> >> the fixes themselves apply cleanly from upstream.
>> >
>> > You have read:
>> >     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
>> > for how to submit networking patches to the stable trees, right?
>> >
>> > I suggest trying it that way first...
>> 
>> Yeah, Dave already queued the original fixes up for stable, but they are
>> not going to apply cleanly on 4.19; hence the first patch in this
>> series.
>> 
>> I thought it was better to just include the full series with that, for
>> context, but maybe that was wrong? Should I just have sent the first
>> one? If so, feel free to just take the first patch in this series and
>> let the others go through the usual stable submission process...
>
> Dave queues up and sends me the stable backports for networking code,
> as the document states. If there is a special series needed for 4.19,
> I'm sure he would be glad to take them. Or, I can take them directly,
> after I have the 5.0 series queued up, if I get an ack from him.
>
> But to seemingly circumvent the normal process, isn't ok, I need to
> know that at least you tried :)

Well I did ask Dave if he wanted me to supply a backport, see
https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=155440061002032&w=2 - I just thought
sending that directly to you was the natural thing to do. Certainly
wasn't trying to circumvent process, just haven't done any backports for
the net tree before :)

Actually, looking at the log again now, I see that I got my versions
mixed up, and the backport patch is also needed for 5.0... so I guess
I'll just (re-)submit that to Dave to put into his stable queue...

-Toke