On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:41:56PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 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. Seems ok to me. -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
