On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:07:52AM +0100, Germano Percossi wrote: > Hi Greg, > > With respect to the 3 patches I received notifications about, > I noticed the following: > > a0918f1ce6 "CIFS: remove bad_network_name flag": you tried to apply it > on 4.10, 4.9 and 4.4 but it failed. I sent the fixed backport. > 1fa839b498 "CIFS: store results of cifs_reopen_file..": it has been > put in the queue for 3.18, 4.4, 4.9 and 4.10 > 18ea43113f "CIFS: reconnect thread reschedule itself": it has been > put in the queue for 4.9 and 4.10 > > Is there any reason why 1fa839b498 goes into 4 stable releases, while > the others in in, respectively, 3 and 2 releases? Perhaps they do not apply to those trees? That's the reason I wouldn't add them there. If you think they do belong there, I would be glad to accept a backported version of the patches. thanks, greg k-h