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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, stephenmcameron@gmail.com,
	mikem@beardog.cce.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	thenzl@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cciss: fix incorrect scsi status reporting
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 14:59:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509145956.97b4ff63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120504182114.24883.40748.stgit@beardog.cce.hp.com>

On Fri, 04 May 2012 13:21:14 -0500
"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> wrote:

> From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
> 
> Delete code which sets SCSI status incorrectly as it's already
> been set correctly above this incorrect code.  Bug was introduced
> by b0e15f6db1110319cb2e747e59e1200450a5ba3e
> "cciss: fix typo that causes scsi status to be lost." in 2009.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Roel van Meer <roel.vanmeer@bokxing.nl>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

If the bug is three years old, it presumably isn't a terribly serious
one.  Why was the -stable backport recommended?


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-09 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-04 18:21 [PATCH] cciss: fix incorrect scsi status reporting Stephen M. Cameron
2012-05-09 21:59 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-05-09 23:21   ` Stephen Cameron

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