From: "Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tanti...@intel.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:33:37 +0000
> The patch you are referring to has not been accepted in net-next yet. > If/when that happens you can request it to be ported to the stable tree. Wrong. If you want a patch to get submitted to stable, it must be appropriate for and you must target it to 'net', not 'net-next'.