Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: fix skb->data assignment

[Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>]

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On Tuesday 19 June 2012 02:02:27 David Miller wrote:
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> Patches you want to end up in -stable should be submitted for 'net'
> not 'net-next'.
> 
> There is no other valid submission scheme.

I know that. This is also completely right and not contested by me. I did not 
submit/create the pull request and don't want to talk about that part too 
much. At least I am not very good in speaking for other people and don't want 
to create more hiccups than I already caused :)

The part that was more interesting for me is the backporting (+ submission of 
these patches) or annotation to which kernel that patch should be backported. 
The stable_kernel_rules.txt gives a nice overview about how to say which other 
patches should be cherry-picked to get this fix applied. But we could also 
have the problem with kernel version that are not obvious (since the patch 
doesn't apply directly on that version) and a backported patch is a better 
choice than cherry-picking many other things.

Is it correct as Antonio did it (submitting more than one patch, but with a 
special "# 3.x" for each one after the Cc: )?

I don't want a big discussion. Just a small hint how it is preferred (maybe 
nothing should be done and the stable committee will guess it.. for example 
the commit id that introduced the problem was missing, but could be used to 
find the affected kernels quite easily).

Thanks,
	Sven

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