netdev - Re: Kernel v3.2 used in SlackWare 14.00 please, backport all needed patches Re: [PATCH net, 1/2] hyperv: Fix a kernel warning from netvsc_linkstatus

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Message-ID: <1369710646.3469.424.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 28 May 2013 04:10:46 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Victor Miasnikov <vvm@....by>
Cc:	Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	"Patrick J. Volkerding" <volkerdi@...ckware.com>,
	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	Mike Sterling <Mike.Sterling@...rosoft.com>,
	Olaf Hering <ohering@...e.de>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, olaf@...fle.de, jasowang@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel v3.2 used in SlackWare 14.00 please, backport all needed
 patches Re: [PATCH net, 1/2] hyperv: Fix a kernel warning from
 netvsc_linkstatus_callback()

On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 16:14 +0300, Victor Miasnikov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > (the 3.2 version is different,
> > and it's instaging. (at not used by distros anyway))
> 
>  No: used
> 
> Linux Kernel v3.2 used in:
> -- SlackWare 14.00
> 
> This is actual stable version SlackWare
> 
> Please, backport all(!) needed patches
[...]
> P.P.P.P.P.S.
> 
> Sorry, if my msg not full "political correct"
> 
> I preffered solve problem as possibily earler, what wait big problems
> 
> Sorry, again . . .

Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.  In short, you need
to identify the commit hash for each of the changes you want, and
provide the backported patch for any commits that can't simply be
cherry-picked.  I'm not going to read through all of what you wrote to
work out exactly what's needed.

I think Slackware might do better to backport the Hyper-V drivers from
Linux 3.4, as Debian and Ubuntu have done with 3.2-based kernels.  But
that sort of large backport isn't allowed on kernel.org stable branches.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.

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