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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Request for inclusion in stable of 4307413256ac1e09b8f53e8715af3df9e49beec3
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 09:15:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180107081531.GA9509@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHcsgXTvynjpm2o5Ygs=biTaAB7rwWmAEO2kNTuobXgyLZt9=g@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 07:44:37PM +0000, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Hi Greg, if possible I would like to ask for commit
> 4307413256ac1e09b8f53e8715af3df9e49beec3
> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/johan/usb-serial.git/commit/?h=usb-linus&id=4307413256ac1e09b8f53e8715af3df9e49beec3
> — "USB: serial: cp210x: add IDs for LifeScan OneTouch Verio IQ") to be
> included in the next stable kernel(s).
> 
> It's a one line change that would save me a few headaches to not have
> to build my own kernel just to get the driver loaded for this device
> (for which I'm writing a tool) and will let users of the meter use the
> tool sooner rather than later in the future.

Patches have to be in Linus's tree before they can be accepted into any
stable kernel release, please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for the rules of all of this.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-07  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-06 19:44 Request for inclusion in stable of 4307413256ac1e09b8f53e8715af3df9e49beec3 Diego Elio Pettenò
2018-01-07  8:15 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-01-07 11:51   ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2018-01-08  7:54     ` Greg KH

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