From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from tpesmarthost.raritan.com ([220.128.57.202]:13088 "EHLO tpesmarthost.raritan.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750998AbaKFNHj (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2014 08:07:39 -0500 Message-ID: <545B7290.6060409@raritan.com> (sfid-20141106_140743_028279_27013AB2) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 14:07:28 +0100 From: Ronald Wahl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg , Arend van Spriel CC: , Christian Lamparter , Ard Biesheuvel Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix regression that triggers a kernel BUG with CCMP References: <1415267752-4704-1-git-send-email-ronald.wahl@raritan.com> <1415268135.1884.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> <545B6AD3.8020301@broadcom.com> <1415277562.17015.4.camel@sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1415277562.17015.4.camel@sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06.11.2014 13:39, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 13:34 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> On 06-11-14 11:02, Johannes Berg wrote: >>> Oh, regarding Cc stable - don't actually send the mail there if you can >>> help it. >> >> What do you mean? Are you saying: It must be tagged, but 'git >> send-email' should not actually add the Cc field in the mail header. >> What is the story here? Guess I missed a memo ;-) > > As far as I remember Greg just ignores the patches sent to the list and > picks them up when they hit Linus's tree instead (i.e. follows the > commit logs with like 'git log --grep "Cc: stable"') so there's no value > in actually sending out email, it's just noise. > > So far it has worked for me, so I think it must be right :) But there are LTS kernels not maintained by Greg like 3.12 and 3.16. How about these? If sending patches to stable@kernel org is optional then it's better to kill that list or silently drop emails send to this list so no errors are returned for this address. - ron -- Ronald Wahl - ronald.wahl@raritan.com - Phone +49 375271349-0 Fax -99 Raritan Deutschland GmbH, Kornmarkt 7, 08056 Zwickau, Germany USt-IdNr. DE813094160, Steuer-Nr. 227/117/01749 Amtsgericht Chemnitz HRB 23605 Geschäftsführung: Stuart Hopper, Ralf Ploenes