Re: Please queue 26bef1318adc1b3a530ecc807ef99346db2aa8b0 for stable

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 05:32 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 09:03:39PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> 26bef1318adc1b3a530ecc807ef99346db2aa8b0 should have been tagged for
>>> stable, but it wasn't.  The bug in question dates back to ancient times;
>>> I expect it should apply without problems to any still supported tree.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you, I'm queuing it for the 3.5 and 3.11 kernels.
>>
>
> Incidentally, is there any reasons your patchsets/trees are:
>
> a) not hosted on kernel.org,
> b) uses a 3.x.y.z convention instead of 3.x.y?
>
> It seems like completely needless fragmentation, especially since as far
> as I can tell, you are always putting things at the end of the
> "upstream" stable series (i.e. you don't end up with both 3.5.9.1 and
> 3.5.10).

I asked Luis about this a while ago and he said he'd be happy to via
Greg's tree:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1604908/focus=1605218

Greg never replied (possibly because he wasn't on CC but I don't remember).

josh
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