netdev - Re: [PATCH stable v3.2 v3.4] ipv4: disable bh while doing route gc

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:23:28 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mleitner@...hat.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable v3.2 v3.4] ipv4: disable bh while doing route gc

On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 00:23 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:09:41 +0100
> 
> > I've appplied this and the previous two patches mentioned ('ipv4: move
> > route garbage collector to work queue' and 'ipv4: avoid parallel route
> > cache gc executions').  But I didn't get the other two from you.  The
> > last batch of networking fixes I received and applied was dated
> > 2014-08-07, and the next one I've seen is dated 2014-10-11 and has
> > nothing for 3.2 or 3.4.  Did I miss one between these?
> 
> I'm at the point where I'm personally not going to go back more than
> four releases, anything more than that is rediculous.
> 
> And this time that was 3.17, 3.16, 3.14, and 3.10

OK.  I appreciate all the work you've done to backport to 3.2, but would
also have appreciated an explicit note to say you were dropping the
earlier versions.

Thanks, Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent
in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949

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