linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.7 000/143] 4.7.3-stable review

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Date:   Mon, 5 Sep 2016 20:48:23 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux@...ck-us.net,
        shuah.kh@...sung.com, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.7 000/143] 4.7.3-stable review

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 07:46:31PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2016.09.05 at 18:42 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.7.3 release.
> > There are 143 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 Wed Sep  7 16:44:10 UTC 2016.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> As far as I can see this missing an rather important mm fix from Michal Hocko.
> 
> commit 6b4e3181d7bd5ca5ab6f45929e4a5ffa7ab4ab7f
> Author: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Date:   Thu Sep 1 16:14:41 2016 -0700

There are 165 patches in my queue still that are in the "in Linus's tree
and marked for stable but not yet applied", so you are in good company.

Let's get this patch at least tested for more than 1 day in an -rc
before we apply it to a stable kernel, right?  Please be patient...

thanks,

greg k-h