From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: PATCH_ppp_mp_explode_redesign Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:43:26 +0000 Message-ID: <20090407094325.GA6031@ff.dom.local> References: <1239052276.28824.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Paoloni, Gabriele" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "paulus@samba.org" To: Dan Williams Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]:19900 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751279AbZDGJng (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:43:36 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j5so2022397wah.21 for ; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1239052276.28824.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06-04-2009 23:11, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:38 +0100, Paoloni, Gabriele wrote: >> Hi >> >> Can anybody tell me what is the procedure that is followed to apply the patch and when it will be officially released. > > Dave Miller (networking maintainer) applied your patch to his various > trees on March 13th. Since 2.6.29 was in bug-fix only mode at that > time, your patch was too late to be included 2.6.29. It has just been > merged into Linus' linux-2.6 tree [1] (which will become 2.6.30) via > Dave Miller's tree. So it appears your patch will be included in the > 2.6.30 kernel when that is released. > > If you think your patch is regression-free and appropriate for stable > kernels (2.6.27, 2.6.28, etc) you might try to send it to the stable > team for inclusion in subsequent stable kernel updates. I guess it's preferred here to ask David for sending to -stable yet (and it usually needs merging to the net-2.6 tree first). Jarek P.