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: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:09:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20141103.150917.1015521239616746570.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20141101.134142.888127846627939710.davem@davemloft.net> 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]:49040 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752458AbaKCUJV (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2014 15:09:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Cong Wang Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:22:18 -0800 > On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 10:41 AM, David Miller wrote: >> >> 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. > > You should really offload to developers, otherwise too much work for you. :) That's exactly what I am doing by having the -stable maintainers for older releases deal with the backports and other pains.