From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [stable request <= 3.11] net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame race Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:41:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20141101.134142.888127846627939710.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1414805353.16849.98.camel@decadent.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk, vlee@twopensource.com, amirv@mellanox.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il, eugenia@mellanox.com, matanb@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: cwang@twopensource.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:54415 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752464AbaKARlo (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:41:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Cong Wang Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 10:17:43 -0700 > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Ben Hutchings 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 >>> 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.