From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751301Ab1GERdD (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:33:03 -0400 Received: from elasmtp-galgo.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.61]:57769 "EHLO elasmtp-galgo.atl.sa.earthlink.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750884Ab1GERdB (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:33:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=e3SGrvVXOUvKT53dEdKc2Iwc6pxLBTtBbwUr65Eo/RzRcDVKtftbTIRv38bqwZzx; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Message-ID: <4E134ACB.9020002@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:32:59 -0400 From: Stephen Clark Reply-To: sclark46@earthlink.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH , linux-kernel Subject: Re: kernel -2.6.35.13 longterm References: <4E13212D.3020005@earthlink.net> <20110705150557.GA2348@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20110705150557.GA2348@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: a437fbc6971e80f61aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec7958d9b72ef969a1b7974924ab00e4ee72350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 69.22.83.66 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/05/2011 11:05 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:35:25AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Is it possible to get the following patches included in the longterm kernel >> 2.6.35.13? >> > Possibly, but you need to email the correct person and email address, > none of which you did :) > > Try stable@kernel.org, and the .35-longterm maintainer (hint, it's not > me.) > > Ok - hmmm maintainers in 2.6.35.13 still lists you - but I'll look at a later kernel maintainers file. >> They let linux behave according to: >> >> "Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers >> draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-09" >> > That looks like a new feature, not a regression or bugfix, right? > > Did you read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt? > > Not til just now. Yes it is a new feature, but with IPV6 it is seems that it would be of use. I know that my company needs it as we are moving off of FreeBSD to Linux for our fw/vpn/router appliance. The alternative is to just keep applying the patch myself. >> From: Thomas Graf >> Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: add special mode accept_ra=2 to accept RA >> while configured as router >> Date: Friday, September 3, 2010 - 5:59 am >> >> > You forgot to mention what the git commit id this is upstream in Linus's > branch, and to copy the people involved in the original patch (author, > subsystem maintainer, etc.) to see if they agree it should go in. > > How in the world do you get the commit info? > greg k-h > > Thanks for the response - I'll see if I can get all the info and do a proper submission. Regards, Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)