Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/21] 4.4.36-stable review

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Nov 30 2016 - 09:54:11 EST


From: Andre Noll <maan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:04:38 +0100

> On Wed, Nov 30, 14:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote
>> > It fixes a regression introduced in 4.4.34 which makes systems
>> > unbootable for us. We are currently running that patch on top of
>> > 4.4.35 and I can confirm that it fixes the issue.
>>
>> I wait for networking stable patches to come from the networking
>> maintainer, as he batches them up and runs them through testing before
>> forwarding them on.
>>
>> That being said, this looks like an "easy" one to take, Davie, any
>> objection to me queueing this up now?
>
> OK, thanks for the clarification. There is no hurry, I just wanted to
> make sure the patch doesn't get lost.

There is never any ambiguity or guessing for networking patches, you
can always simply check right here to see if a networking patch is
pending to be sent to -stable:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?submitter=&state=*&q=&archive=