From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752182Ab3FECH7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:07:59 -0400 Received: from mail1.windriver.com ([147.11.146.13]:35814 "EHLO mail1.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751243Ab3FECH5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:07:57 -0400 Message-ID: <51AEA06A.7040206@windriver.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 10:20:26 +0800 From: Xufeng Zhang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Hutchings CC: Greg KH , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: set association state to established in dupcook_a handler References: <1370245978-12884-1-git-send-email-xufeng.zhang@windriver.com> <20130603142811.GE7024@kroah.com> <51AD4A34.6050606@windriver.com> <1370391220.21654.73.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1370391220.21654.73.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/05/2013 08:13 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 10:00 +0800, Xufeng Zhang wrote: > >> On 06/03/2013 10:28 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:52:58PM +0800, Xufeng Zhang wrote: >>> >>> >>>> 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >>>> >>>> >>> Really? What are you going to do with it if no one objects? >>> >>> >> Sorry, I don't have any experience with stable patch and I consult >> stable_kernel_rules.txt, there are not much special rules and here I just >> want to specify the kernel version I wish it to be applied to. >> >> >>> I know I'm sure not going to do anything with it... >>> >>> (hint, this isn't how you ask for networking stable patches to be >>> applied.) >>> >>> >> Ok, thanks for your hint, I'll resend the patch. >> > The heading you used should only be used by a stable branch maintainer > sending out a series of patches they've already accepted, prior to > making a new release. If you want a fix to be added to be applied to > one or more stable branches, you should write in the form of a request. > And if you're just not sure, then you should write in the form of a > question. > > Networking is a special case in that the subsystem maintainer, David > Miller, generally collects together and backports fixes for all the > official 3.x branches. So you should send your request to him (but do > cc the stable and subsystem lists as well). > Thank you, Ben! Now it's more clear. Thanks, Xufeng > Ben. > >