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

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Message-Id: <20141020.113942.494881588483054629.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:39:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
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

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:23:28 +0100

> 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.

My apologies, but as time goes on and more -stable releases go active
I will certainly be tail dropping to keep it within 4 releases.
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