From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51954 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751062AbcKIKIF (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2016 05:08:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:08:13 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Kashyap Desai Cc: Sumit Saxena , emilne@redhat.com, hare@suse.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, thenzl@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix data integrity failure for JBOD (passthrough) devices" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree Message-ID: <20161109100813.GA27827@kroah.com> References: <147867953433155@kroah.com> <20161109084900.GA16641@kroah.com> <8cf3887e20e37314f49066cea65369ee@mail.gmail.com> <20161109090303.GB6013@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 02:45:30PM +0530, Kashyap Desai wrote: > > >> please let > > > >> > know about it. > > > >> > > > >> There will be follow up patch which I will be sending in sometime > > > >> so follow patch needs to be applied along with this patch. > > > > > > > >Does that mean that this patch on its own is broken? > > > > > > > >confused, > > > Yes this patch is broken and follow up patch will fix that. I am doing > > > some testing with fix and will send it in sometime. > > > > So should I drop this one from the stable trees until that one is > merged? > > Greg - We are sending another patch which is small fix on top of this one. > It is critical regression. > Not sure which will be a good .. To reject or hold current patch. Current > patch is definitely a not good to keep without upcoming fix. > > To avoid confusion, let's reject this patch and apply once full fix is > available (by EOD). Ok, I've dropped this from the stable queue, please let me know when the "fix" is in Linus's tree, so I can re-add this patch, and the fix patch (please let me know what the git ids are for both.) thanks, greg k-h