Re: Patch "iwlwifi: mvm: handle FRAME_RELEASE in MQ code" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

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On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 07:38:10AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 16:22 +0000, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     iwlwifi: mvm: handle FRAME_RELEASE in MQ code
> > 
> > to the 4.7-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:
> >      iwlwifi-mvm-handle-frame_release-in-mq-code.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable
> > tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> 
> I have no particular objections to including this, but it only fixes
> something for (unreleased) hardware that will likely never work on the
> 4.7 kernel (due to also unreleased firmware, and likelihood of never
> releasing older firmware versions).
> 
> So there's almost certainly no point, but OTOH it also cannot possibly
> hurt since this code path is only taken with that particular hardware.

Ok, thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped it from the stable
queue.

greg k-h
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