From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32.y] netxen: support for GbE port settings Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:40:39 -0500 Message-ID: <20120312093919.GA17642@burratino> References: <1300172175-16853-1-git-send-email-amit.salecha@qlogic.com> <20120312043539.GA15903@burratino> <20120312090950.GC11569@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Sony Chacko , Ana Guerrero , Michael Mastrogiacomo , Amit Kumar Salecha , Ameen Rahman , Anirban Chakraborty To: Willy Tarreau Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:37449 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754902Ab2CLJkw (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:40:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120312090950.GC11569@1wt.eu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Willy, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:35:39PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> From: Sony Chacko >> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:54:55 -0700 >> >> commit bfd823bd74333615783d8108889814c6d82f2ab0 upstream. [...] > One very important requirement for merging such a > fix is that it is already present in more recent stable releases : > when users upgrade from 2.6.32 to 3.0, we don't want them to get > the bug again. Thanks for explaining. To answer this question: since the patch (v2.6.39-rc1~468^2~23) was in mainline in 2.6.39, it gets the privilege of inclusion in 3.0.y by default. > If this requirement is satisfied and David is not opposed to merging > the patch, then we can include it (even in this release, considering > the authors and reviewers are already CC'd). Cheers, Jonathan