Re: Question about commit 5b8df24e22e0b

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:19:50AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I submitted the patch that ended up as mainline commit
> 5b8df24e22e0b, I intended it to also be sent to stable. My copy
> indicates that it did get sent that way; however, the "Cc: stable"
> line is not in the commit message. That was my error.
> 
> As the patch is quite intrusive, do you think it could be backported
> to the stable kernels? In its present form, the patch will not apply
> cleanly, but I can and will provide the necessary form. The patch
> was tested on some specially modified Fedora kernels and it is known
> to fix the problem in older kernels.
> 
> Is there anything else I should do?

Providing a backport would be great, as there's nothing we can really do
without that.

thanks,

greg k-h
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