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

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Message-ID: <20130415153913.GJ17602@zion.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:39:13 +0100
From:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
CC:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>, 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

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:35:04PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > > > 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?
> 

Sure.


Wei.

> Ian.
> 
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