On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:40:34PM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > Hi, > > I need to disable a feature on 3.13 and 3.14. But I don't have any > patch upstream that I can point to as the patch that needs to be > backported. > We have a feature that is buggy in 3.13 and 3.14. We refactored (and > fixed) this feature in 3.15 but the refactor is really not stable > material, so basically, I can't backport the fix to 3.13 / 3.14. A > user reported that disabling the feature solved (part of) his issues: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72601. > OTOH, I don't have any patch in linux.git that could be backported to > do what I want in 3.13 / 3.14 - i.e. disable the feature. > What is the right process here? I understand that this isn't covered > by the "stable rules". So what should I do here? Get the maintainer's approval to apply this patch and I can queue it up. > > FYI: this is the patch: > > commit 31e56634bea6ab23817faa069663af3103da0609 > Author: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun May 18 19:05:23 2014 +0300 > > iwlwifi: mvm: disable beacon filtering > > This feature has been causing trouble - disable it for now. > Fixes are available, but they are too big to be backported. > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72601 > > Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> Also, sending it in a format that I can apply it in would be nice :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
