From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthrough commands Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 16:50:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20170331145052.GA15647@kroah.com> References: <20170331135030.GA24063@zipoli.ccur.kvm> <20170331141229.GB8141@kroah.com> <20170331141647.GA26310@zipoli.ccur.kvm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170331141647.GA26310@zipoli.ccur.kvm> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Korty Cc: James Bottomley , Andrey Grodzovsky , Suganath Prabu S , Sreekanth Reddy , Sathya Prakash , Chaitra P B , Christoph Hellwig , Hannes Reinecke , Ingo Molnar , Linux SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Stable Mailing List , Bart Van Assche , "Martin K. Petersen" List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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