Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] [request for stable 3.10 inclusion] fix BE8 issue

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 06:22:43AM +0000, Sheng Yong wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Linux 3.10.y does not support BE8 well, in result, we meet BE8 issues when
> enabling it. So we hope that these BE8-related patchset can be merged to
> stable 3.10.y to make BE8 avaliable.

What is "BE8"?

And how is this a bugfix series?  It really looks like it is a new
feature you are asking to be backported here, which isn't ok for stable
kernels, as is explained in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

Or am I somehow mistaken here?

thanks,

greg k-h
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