From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:42280 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031622AbdDTLFh (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:05:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:05:25 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Germano Percossi Cc: pshilov@microsoft.com, smfrench@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "CIFS: reconnect thread reschedule itself" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree Message-ID: <20170420110525.GA26795@kroah.com> References: <1492519711174191@kroah.com> <48f830fd-5d60-91bf-6185-bb5a3b476dfe@citrix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48f830fd-5d60-91bf-6185-bb5a3b476dfe@citrix.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:07:52AM +0100, Germano Percossi wrote: > Hi Greg, > > With respect to the 3 patches I received notifications about, > I noticed the following: > > a0918f1ce6 "CIFS: remove bad_network_name flag": you tried to apply it > on 4.10, 4.9 and 4.4 but it failed. I sent the fixed backport. > 1fa839b498 "CIFS: store results of cifs_reopen_file..": it has been > put in the queue for 3.18, 4.4, 4.9 and 4.10 > 18ea43113f "CIFS: reconnect thread reschedule itself": it has been > put in the queue for 4.9 and 4.10 > > Is there any reason why 1fa839b498 goes into 4 stable releases, while > the others in in, respectively, 3 and 2 releases? Perhaps they do not apply to those trees? That's the reason I wouldn't add them there. If you think they do belong there, I would be glad to accept a backported version of the patches. thanks, greg k-h