On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:53:22AM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 08:46 +0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:22:49PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote: > > > 1) But actually thinking about this: that upstream commit did end up in > > > the (longterm) v3.4.y series. And my patch is also relevant for the > > > v3.8.y series. > > > > As that patch was in the 3.5-rc7 release, how can it be relevant for > > 3.8, or anything greater than 3.5 at all? > > I seem to have confused you. My patch fixes a bug caused by a commit > that shipped in final release v3.5 (and is also part the 3.4.y series, > because that commit got added to that stable series). What commit are you talking about here? Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to have a patch applied to the stable kernel releases. Hint, this isn't how you do it... greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html