On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 11:47 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Andy Smith writes ("Re: Bug#850425: Debian bug #850425 - mpt3sas "swiotlb > buffer is full" problem only under Xen"): > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 06:01:14PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Patches only make it into Linux upstream stable releases if someone > > > pushes to get them in. > > > > Do you have any advice how I could push to get this to happen? > > > > Obviously I need this in order for Xen to be usable on my hardware > > but we're talking mpt3sas driver here which is pretty common, so I > > think it is quite desirable. > > Right. Well, you need to post to linux-kernel saying "this patch > fixes such-and-such". You should: > > 1. git clone or git fetch the current master, which is > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git#master > and check that it doesn't have the patch.
It is better to use the subsystem's master branch. For many subsystems this is listed in MAINTAINERS; otherwise 'git log --merges directory/' should provide a clue. [...] > Backports to Debian are requested via the Debian BTS but you ideally > the patch would be in upstream stable trees. We're happy to take fixes once they've been accepted by the subsystem maintainer. > To get the patch into upstream stable trees, you need to send a > > similar kind of email, but to <sta...@vger.kernel.org> (and the > maintainers for the subsystems, I think). [...] It is easier to do this by putting a 'Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org' pseudo-header in the patch (along with Signed-off-by etc). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug
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