On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:20 +0530, Desai, Kashyap wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:50 PM > > To: Desai, Kashyap > > Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > Prakash, Sathya; Moore, Eric; stable@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 04/06] mptfusion: mptctl_release is > > required in mptctl.c > > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:33:00PM +0530, Kashyap, Desai wrote: > > > > > > Added missing release callback for file_operations mptctl_fops. > > > Without release callback there will be never freed. It remains on > > > mptctl's eent list even after the file is closed and released. > > > > > > Relavent RHEL bugzilla is 660871 > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@xxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > > <snip> > > > > This is NOT the way to get patches into a stable kernel release. > > Please > > read the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do it > > properly. > > > Greg, Thanks for the redirecting to correct process. I understood that I have to add "CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxx " in header of the patch itself instead of > CCing stable@xxxxxxxxxx from email client. > Do I need to resend those patches? Well, as I said, I need the series split into enhancements and bug fixes ... so why not do that with a resend and add it? James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html