Re: [ 000/100] 3.8.3-stable review

Re: [ 000/100] 3.8.3-stable review

[Andre Heider]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.3 release.
> There are 100 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.

Hi,

I'm missing a drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c patch, namely "atl1c:
restore buffer state".
In fact, it seems the whole netdev stable patch queue is missing:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=*

Unsure what the workflow is here, how are these supposed to make to stable?

Thanks,
Andre

Re: [ 000/100] 3.8.3-stable review

[David Miller]

From: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:02:46 +0100

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.3 release.
>> There are 100 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>> let me know.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm missing a drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c patch, namely "atl1c:
> restore buffer state".
> In fact, it seems the whole netdev stable patch queue is missing:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=*
> 
> Unsure what the workflow is here, how are these supposed to make to stable?

I submit those patches at a time of my own choosing, and if you
read stable@vger.kernel.org you will see when I do that.

I let patches cook in Linus's tree for a week or so before submitting
to -stable so that any bugs in those changes are more likely to be
discovered before the change is in -stable too.

Re: [ 000/100] 3.8.3-stable review

[Andre Heider]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:33 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:02:46 +0100
>
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.3 release.
>>> There are 100 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>> let me know.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm missing a drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c patch, namely "atl1c:
>> restore buffer state".
>> In fact, it seems the whole netdev stable patch queue is missing:
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=*
>>
>> Unsure what the workflow is here, how are these supposed to make to stable?
>
> I submit those patches at a time of my own choosing, and if you
> read stable@vger.kernel.org you will see when I do that.
>
> I let patches cook in Linus's tree for a week or so before submitting
> to -stable so that any bugs in those changes are more likely to be
> discovered before the change is in -stable too.

I hoped that a fix I care about makes it to 3.8.3, but ok, that makes sense.

Thanks,
Andre