From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable request <= 3.11] net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame race Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:44:46 -0800 Message-ID: <20141119014446.GH22731@kroah.com> References: <20141101.134142.888127846627939710.davem@davemloft.net> <20141103.150917.1015521239616746570.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, cwang@twopensource.com, ben@decadent.org.uk, Amir Vadai , Or Gerlitz , Jack Morgenstein , Eugenia Emantayev , Matan Barak , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" To: Vinson Lee Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:38:37AM -0800, Vinson Lee wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:09 PM, David Miller wrote: > > 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. > > + stable > > Please backport upstream commit > 2d4b646613d6b12175b017aca18113945af1faf3 "net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame > race" to stable kernels. David is no longer supporting 3.10 and older. > > Please refer to http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=141366689811844 for > previous comments in thread. Now applied, thanks. greg k-h