From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey2805@gmail.com>,
Suganath Prabu S <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>,
Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@broadcom.com>,
Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@broadcom.com>,
Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Stable Mailing List <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthrough commands
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 16:50:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170331145052.GA15647@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170331141647.GA26310@zipoli.ccur.kvm>
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:16:47AM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> This patch is not yet in 4.4.
What patch is that? I can't find a git commit id here at all :(
> It is in 4.9 and upstream. No one has submitted it to you before this
> email. I only discovered the need for it because lockdep complains
> when it is missing. I do not know how it was missed; perhaps there is
> a reason rather than it being missed by accident. Others in the know
> can comment if they like.
You need to say what you want to have happen for a stable patch, you did
read Documenation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, right?
still confused,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-31 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20170331135030.GA24063@zipoli.ccur.kvm>
2017-03-31 14:12 ` [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthrough commands Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20170331141647.GA26310@zipoli.ccur.kvm>
2017-03-31 14:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
[not found] ` <20170331181029.GA13098@zipoli.ccur.kvm>
2017-03-31 19:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20170331203857.GA22878@zipoli.ccur.kvm>
2017-04-01 16:10 ` [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthrough command (try 2) Greg Kroah-Hartman
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