Re: [PATCH v11]: Hibernation: fix the number of pages used for hibernate/thaw buffering

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, April 26, 2012, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > No, I didn't requested that.  There's nothing like stable-only patches,
> > we only backport mainline commits to -stable.
> 
> Yeah, you told me that my patch was not straightforward, so I broke off
> part of it for -stable that would fix just the most critical problem.

Which is entirely OK, but see below.

> > > This patch should go to linux-next:
> > > 
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133426808115262&w=2
> > 
> > OK
> > 
> > So I'll include it into my v3.5 push and I don't want to hear about how
> > urgent it is any more.  Is that clear enough?
> 
> Look, I created a problem on some people's computer in 3.2. I feel
> responsible for fixing it. I do not want their computers to hang because
> of something I wrote, especially if there is a fix.
> 
> So, if I will say one more time. This patch is a fix for a regression,
> caused by me, since 3.2. Please ask -stable maintainers to include it in
> version in 3.2 and above.

The -stable rules are such that it only is permitted to put a commit into
-stable if the analogous commit is already in the mainline.  That also
covers reverts and such.

> If you want me to create a set of patches instead and then you backport
> just one, let me know. I will do whatever is necessary to fix this
> regression.

Can you just create a second patch on top of what's in linux-next now?

Rafael
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