On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 11:44 +0800, Qiang Huang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> We've started to analyze the list of upstream commits that have been
> backported to 3.2 but missing from 3.4.
>
> For the 15 commits that I've analyzed,
> - 1 commit is already in 3.4.x, must be the tool's mistake.
> - 2 commits have no stable tags, they are not bugfixes, and I didn't
> find any patches which relied on them. [1]
> - 1 commit was marked for stable and can be applied cleanly to 3.4, but
> I see it fix no bug and didn't find any patches relied on it, so I
> think we should ignore it. [2]
[...]
> [1] the patches from 3.2.x
> 3eddd6c470e2 net: Add net_ratelimited_function and net_<level>_ratelimited macros
This is a dependency of commit 9ecd1a75d977 ('xen-netfront: reduce
gso_max_size to account for max TCP header').
> 56f1f4bb5770 PCI: Define macro for Marvell vendor ID
This is a dependency of several commits adding device IDs to ahci.
> [2] the patch form 3.2.x
> ee698d67a4af random: allow architectures to optionally define random_get_entropy()
True, this is only needed for commit 017cecee99d8 ('m68k: Add
infrastructure for machine-specific random_get_entropy()') which was not
cc'd to stable and is not on any stable branch.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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