From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] atm: expose ATM device index in sysfs
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:06:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110526190651.GA7627@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306432057.3151.10.camel@dcbw.foobar.com>
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:47:36PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> It's current exposed only through /proc which besides requiring
> screen-scraping doesn't allow userspace to distinguish between two
> identical ATM adapters with different ATM indexes. The ATM device index
> is required when using PPPoATM on a system with multiple ATM adapters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> PS: -> stable too since it's a minimal change with no backwards
> incompatibility and I'd like to rely on this attribute in NetworkManager
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.
</formletter>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-26 17:47 [PATCH] atm: expose ATM device index in sysfs Dan Williams
2011-05-26 17:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-26 18:35 ` Dan Williams
2011-05-27 14:51 ` [PATCH v2] " Dan Williams
2011-05-27 14:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-27 15:05 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-27 17:07 ` David Miller
2011-05-26 19:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
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