From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754982AbaJHPZX (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:25:23 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com ([209.85.192.169]:44333 "EHLO mail-pd0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753987AbaJHPZW (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:25:22 -0400 Message-ID: <5435575E.2090308@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:25:18 -0600 From: David Ahern User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CC: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Frederic Weisbecker , LKML , Jiri Olsa Subject: Re: PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER has different values based on bitness References: <54347238.2060908@gmail.com> <20141008072355.GA10832@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <54355592.6000604@gmail.com> <20141008152204.GN14113@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20141008152204.GN14113@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/8/14, 9:22 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > I wonder how that works best, being on the receiving side of such requests > from time to time. > > I guess that to scale, that would be better done by: > > 1. Reporter tests if the patch applies (and works) on the desired > targets. > > 2. Reporter sends the request, with the above test results, to > stable@kernel.org, following whatever conventions are to get the > attention of the stable release maintainers. My understanding is that subsystem maintainers do the stable requests. A patch adjustment is needed for v3.4 and v3.10. I am willing to do the necessary patch mods for 3.4, 3.10, and 3.14. David