From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: hekuang@huawei.com, peterz@infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] module: weaken locking assertion for oops path." failed to apply to 4.1-stable tree
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:57:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150815155725.GA25186@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oai9qlct.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 01:00:42PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> gregkh@linuxfoundation.org writes:
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.1-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> That's OK. But a question: this was implied by the Fixes: tag;
> is there a better way to say "you need this IFF you have that"?
You did it correctly, it was just odd to see something marked for stable
for a fixes tag of something that showed up in 4.2-rc1, so I thought it
was prudent to let you know this didn't apply.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2015-08-14 1:15 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] module: weaken locking assertion for oops path." failed to apply to 4.1-stable tree gregkh
2015-08-15 3:30 ` Rusty Russell
2015-08-15 15:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
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