Re: [stable request <= 3.11] net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame race

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 10:17:43 -0700

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 14:14 -0700, Vinson Lee wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Please consider backporting upstream commit
>>> 2d4b646613d6b12175b017aca18113945af1faf3 "net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame
>>> race" to stable kernels <= 3.11.
>>>
>>> commit 2d4b646613d6b12175b017aca18113945af1faf3
>>> Author: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>
>>> Date:   Thu Jul 25 19:21:23 2013 +0300
>>>
>>>     net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame race
>> [...]
>>
>> David doesn't support anything older than 3.12 now, so you should send
>> requests for older stable branches directly to the stable list.
> 
> Interesting, is there a document saying which stable kernels netdev
> supports? and how are they chosen?
> 
> I thought netdev supports all -stable maintainers support.
> 
> Anyway, we will send the request directly to Greg then.

There is no documented way nor do I wish to state anything so strictly.
I want maximum flexibility for such a time consuming task.

I tend to go back 3 or 4 releases at most, and it really depends upon
the difficulty of the backports and my own time constraints.