On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:16:25PM +0200, Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner wrote: > Hi, > > > Am 22.05.2013 18:23, schrieb Greg KH: > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:16:11PM +0200, Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner wrote: > >> Am 22.05.2013 15:57, schrieb Greg KH: > >>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:36:09PM +0200, Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> why is this patch still not backported to 3.4? > >>>> > >>>> I today tried 3.4.46 from kernel.org, but the patch STILL seems _NOT_ included? > >>>> > >>>> WHY IS THAT? > >>> > >>> <formletter> > >>> > >>> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > >>> stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > >>> for how to do this properly. > >>> > >>> </formletter> > >>> > >> > >> > >> I don't want to submit a patch - i wanted to know why this patch still is not in > >> the kernel (it is afaics at least 6 months old!) > > > > Perhaps because it was not submitted properly as documented above? > > > > Well, i don't know. I have not written that patch, but tested and applied it > against 3.4.36 where it worked fine. > > But i am unable to apply it to 3.4.46 (there are rejects if i try to apply it, > obviously because there were changes in the meanwhile) - It would be cool if > someone could tell if that patch is really needed anymore with 3.4.46. > > I am no C coder and only have little C experience, but i'd like to use this > patch with current 3.4 stable Kernel or at least make sure that this patch is > not needed anymore with current stable kernels... Why do you think that it is needed? And does it match up to a specific change that is already in Linus's tree? That is a requirement here. thanks, 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