From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] target refcounting infrastructure fixes for usb Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 06:50:39 -0800 Message-ID: <1388760639.2202.3.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> References: <20131220231810.GA2835@xanatos> <20140103004551.GA2970@xanatos> <52C67B4D.9060101@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:40491 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751529AbaACOul (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:50:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <52C67B4D.9060101@redhat.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Hans de Goede Cc: Sarah Sharp , Alan Stern , linux-scsi , USB list On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 09:56 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > James, what is the status of getting the fix for the refcount issue into > mainline ? The plan is what I wrote in the patch intro: "Since it's a major change to the infrastructure, we'll incubate upstream first before backporting to stable." That means with the merge window and delayed stable backport to make sure it's sound. James