On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:19:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 07:36:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm not entirely clear on how acceptable it is to propose a different > > > > patch for -stable than what we have upstream. > > > > > > It's not all that common, but it certainly happens. > > > > > > It's fine, as long as it mentions the commits that fix it upstream. > > > And as long as it's well tested, of course. > > > > I agree, I can take this as long as you say it's correct and tested... > > As far as I understand the issue the patch is indeed correct and I have > 3 independent people who confirm their previously reported issues are > now cured (as testified by the Tested-by tags). > > There has also been confirmation that upstream does no longer suffer the > problem.
Thanks for that, I'll queue it up in a bit. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
