From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932615Ab0JLOLM (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:11:12 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:54120 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932579Ab0JLOLL (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:11:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:11:43 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon , Milan Broz Subject: Re: [stable] dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable? Message-ID: <20101012141143.GA12143@kroah.com> References: <20101012132511.GA24455@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101012132511.GA24455@khazad-dum.debian.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:25:11AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Would it be possible to add commit 61afef614b013ee1b767cdd10325acae1db1f4d2 > "dm crypt: add plain64 iv" to -stable? Which -stable tree? .27, .32, .35, or any/all of them? Please be more specific when asking for this in the future. > Without it, users of LTS kernels like 2.6.32 are missing important > functionality (as in: might not be able to mount some LUKS volumes > created on newer kernels). Also note that this patch really looks like a "new feature", not a bugfix or anything that matches up with what Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt defines. So I don't think that it really is something to add to a stable kernel. thanks, greg k-h