Re: [PATCH v3]PCI: hv: fix PCI-BUS domainID corruption

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 04:41:02PM +0000, Sridhar Pitchai wrote:
>     Please read the link I sent you in relation to email formatting.
>     
>     Then add your description above in a way that anyone not 100% familiar
>     with hyperv can understand it - that's what the commit log is for.
>     
>     You are sending this patch to stable kernels, patch above has been in
>     the kernel from v4.14. The patch you are fixing since v4.11, you ought
>     to be careful since you do not want to have broken kernel versions owing
>     to stable patches mismatches, that's why I asked and I will ask again,
>     are you sure you won't trigger a regression by sending this fix to
>     stable ?
>     
>     I assume the bond driver mechanism is now done and dusted.
>     
> That is correct. I have sent a v4 version of the patch. I am sending this
> patch for stable kernel. We have tested and I am sure this should not trigger
> regression by sending this fix to stable.


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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

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