netdev - Re: [PATCH V4 7/7] xen-netback: don't disconnect frontend when seeing oversize packet

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Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:35:04 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
CC:	William Dauchy <wdauchy@...il.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	"annie.li@...cle.com" <annie.li@...cle.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"jbeulich@...e.com" <jbeulich@...e.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 7/7] xen-netback: don't disconnect frontend when
 seeing oversize packet


> > > Are mechinical fixes such as removing redudent variables / changing log
> > > messages candidates for stable? 1-4 are such kind of fixes.
> > 
> > #4 looks like meat to me too?
> > 
> 
> Not really. DaveM applied first 3 and later I discoverd there was a log
> message which should have been changed in 2. So I wrote a incremental
> patch on top of 2 to fix that.

Oops, I think I read "V4 7/7" as 4/7...

> 
> > My personal opinion is that it is better where possible to take
> > relatively simple and/or obvious precursors (renaming and such fit this
> > IMHO) than to risk making a mistake in the backport.
> > 
> 
> OK, then the whole series is candidate for stable.

Once things go in can you enumerate the actual commit numbers please?

Ian.

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