From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jason@lakedaemon.net (Jason Cooper) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:08:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix SATA disk hotplug for Armada 370/XP SoCs In-Reply-To: <20140114155945.GQ19878@titan.lakedaemon.net> References: <1389711007-7239-1-git-send-email-simon.guinot@sequanux.org> <20140114151404.GN19878@titan.lakedaemon.net> <20140114154834.GD32507@kw.sim.vm.gnt> <20140114155945.GQ19878@titan.lakedaemon.net> Message-ID: <20140114160800.GR19878@titan.lakedaemon.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:59:45AM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote: ... > The linux-stable team isn't the only people who find this information > useful. Distros maintaining older kernels would find it very helpful > when going through -stable patches to know easily if a patch should be > backported further, say to v3.8. And yes, I'm aware that -stable is actively supporting farther back than what we are discussing here. I was refuting the specific argument as opposed to correcting wrong assumptions. In general, it's better to be accurate regarding 'Fixes:' commits than assuming no one cares about anything older than the oldest -stable kernel. thx, Jason.