Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:17:43PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled >> > >> > decnet: Fix disappearing sysctl entries >> > >> > to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: >> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary >> > >> > The filename of the patch is: >> > decnet-fix-disappearing-sysctl-entries.patch >> > and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. >> > >> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, >> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >> >> This patch won't hurt anything in 3.4 but it is not needed. >> >> The sysctl rewrite which is the proper fix is already in 3.4. >> >> I just tested and confirmed that 3.4 does not display the problem >> of the decnet sysctls going away. > > Ah, my apologies, you only asked for this to go to 3.0 and 3.2, not 3.4, > my fault. > > Too many different kernel trees here... No problem. This is a weird one. The fix for -stable was different than the mainline fix, and the regression was successfully reported until the bug had been fixed for a year. It doesn't seem there are very many bleeding edge folks in decnet land. Eric -- 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