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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
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Subject: Re: [V2][v3.14.y][PATCH 0/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add support for
 VMBus panic notifier handler
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 02:18:18PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please consider including upstream commits 96c1d0581d00f7abe033350edb021a9d947d8d81 and
> 5ef5b6927f14f29cacd78fa1fb861661a5367f13 in the next v3.14.y release.  They were
> included mainline as of v4.1-rc1.  They have been tested and confirmed to resolve
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1463584 .

This is a new feature request, and as such, is not applicable for a
stable kernel backport at all.

Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for what is, and is
not, ok to be backported.

thanks,

greg k-h