From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vinson Lee Subject: Re: [stable request <= 3.11] net/mlx4_en: Fix BlueFlame race Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:38:37 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20141101.134142.888127846627939710.davem@davemloft.net> <20141103.150917.1015521239616746570.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: 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: stable@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20141103.150917.1015521239616746570.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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. Cheers, Vinson