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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il, jgg@mellanox.com, leonro@mellanox.com,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] IB/core: Make testing MR flags for writability a static" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 17:28:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180812152810.GD30273@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180812135649.3oz43dq7ljk5flxu@debian>

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 02:56:49PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 11:37:25AM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-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>.
> 
> The attached backported patch should apply to 4.4-stable and also to
> 4.9-stable.
> 
> Though I am confused about why this should be in stable, unless some
> later fix, required in stable, depends on this.

That's a good question.  Can some IB developer please answer this before
I queue this up?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-12 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-01  9:37 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] IB/core: Make testing MR flags for writability a static" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2018-08-12 13:56 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2018-08-12 15:28   ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-08-12 17:06     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-08-12 17:49       ` Sudip Mukherjee

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