Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Cleanup hv_post_message()

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 06:29:52PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Minimize failures in this function by pre-allocating the buffer
> for posting messages. The hypercall for posting the message can fail
> for a number of reasons:
> 
<snip>
> 
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Is this patch useful for all longterm (2.6.32.63, 3.2.62, 3.4.103,
3.10.53, 3.12.27, 3.14.17) in addition to stable (3.16.1) kernels? I've
noticed some other LKML messages sometimes have the following (but there
doesn't seem to be a standard):

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.4+

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