From: Xufeng Zhang <xufeng.zhang@windriver.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
<nhorman@tuxdriver.com>, <vyasevich@gmail.com>,
<davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: set association state to established in dupcook_a handler
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 10:20:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51AEA06A.7040206@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370391220.21654.73.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
On 06/05/2013 08:13 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 10:00 +0800, Xufeng Zhang wrote:
>
>> On 06/03/2013 10:28 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:52:58PM +0800, Xufeng Zhang wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Really? What are you going to do with it if no one objects?
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry, I don't have any experience with stable patch and I consult
>> stable_kernel_rules.txt, there are not much special rules and here I just
>> want to specify the kernel version I wish it to be applied to.
>>
>>
>>> I know I'm sure not going to do anything with it...
>>>
>>> (hint, this isn't how you ask for networking stable patches to be
>>> applied.)
>>>
>>>
>> Ok, thanks for your hint, I'll resend the patch.
>>
> The heading you used should only be used by a stable branch maintainer
> sending out a series of patches they've already accepted, prior to
> making a new release. If you want a fix to be added to be applied to
> one or more stable branches, you should write in the form of a request.
> And if you're just not sure, then you should write in the form of a
> question.
>
> Networking is a special case in that the subsystem maintainer, David
> Miller, generally collects together and backports fixes for all the
> official 3.x branches. So you should send your request to him (but do
> cc the stable and subsystem lists as well).
>
Thank you, Ben!
Now it's more clear.
Thanks,
Xufeng
> Ben.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-05 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-03 7:52 [PATCH] sctp: set association state to established in dupcook_a handler Xufeng Zhang
2013-06-03 14:28 ` Greg KH
2013-06-04 2:00 ` Xufeng Zhang
2013-06-05 0:13 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-05 2:20 ` Xufeng Zhang [this message]
2013-06-05 2:55 ` Xufeng Zhang
2013-06-07 10:39 ` Xufeng Zhang
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