linux-kernel - Re: [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review

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Message-ID: <20120412011313.GA23764@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:13:13 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
Cc:	Sergio Correia <lists@...e.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-wireless Mailing List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@....qualcomm.com>,
	"ath9k-devel@...ts.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 04:03:59AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 07:59:14PM -0400, Sergio Correia wrote:
> >> Hello Greg,
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.3.2 release.
> >> > There are 78 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> >> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> >> > let me know.
> >> >
> >> > Responses should be made by Fri Apr 13 23:10:16 UTC 2012.
> >> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >> >
> >>
> >> is there any chance for this one to be included in this review cycle?
> >>
> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg87999.html
> 
> I was going to ask for exactly the same thing. My system is completely
> unusable without this patch; not only does the network doesn't work,
> but quite often the kernel is stuck consuming 100% of the CPU.
> 
> > Have you read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt?  Based on that, I
> > don't think it can, yet, right?
> 
> Why not? This patch makes the code go back to a previous state, it is
> obviously more stable than the current state, and the code already
> exists in Linus's tree (in previous releases).

It does?  What is the git commit id of the patch?  Based in the email
above, I assumed it had not made it to Linus's tree already.

> But hey, I guess it's OK that 3.3.x is stuck in and endless loop right
> after booting, because rules are more important than fixing obvious
> breakage.

What rule did you think I was saying this was not acceptable for?

greg k-h
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