linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: unify iwl_setup_rxon

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Message-ID: <20091217032925.GA21374@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:29:25 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Ike Panhc <ike.pan@...onical.com>
Cc:	reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
	"Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@...el.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Guy, Wey-Yi W" <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>,
	"Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
	"stable@...nel.org" <stable@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: unify iwl_setup_rxon_timing

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:52:15AM +0800, Ike Panhc wrote:
> reinette chatre wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 22:46 -0800, Ike Panhc wrote:
> > 
> >> But Please consider applying the first patch (change IWL6000_UCODE_API_MAX
> >> to v4) to 2.6.31-stable tree. It will be good to use v4 firmware on iwl6000.
> > 
> > Please no. This will effectively enable 6000 series in 2.6.31. We did
> > not target 2.6.31 for 6000 series enabling and more patches, which are
> > in 2.6.32, are required for 6000 series to work well.
> > 
> > Reinette
> > 
> Got it, so backport any patch for iwl6000 to 2.6.31-stable is not reasonable.

Bugfixes are fine, but that is not what this is.

Please go read the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt to give
you an idea of what we are expecting here.

thanks,

greg k-h
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