On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:43:06AM -0800, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:11:56 -0800 > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 03:24:43PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > > > > > Is there any chance that 74d290da476f672ad756634d12aa707375d3564d > > > ([CIFS] Provide sane values for nlink) could be backported to the stable > > > 3.2 kernel? > > > > Why just 3.2? What's wrong with all of the other kernels before 3.12 > > that do not have this patch in it? > > Yeah, you'd probably need to apply it to every stable kernel > 3.2 or > you'd technically have a regression. I've no real objection to putting > that fix in, but backporting to older kernels may not be trivial. There > have been other changes in this area over the years... There's no reason why it should only be 3.2 only - the only reason I picked that one is because it is the current Debian stable kernel. -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- 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