Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:53:25PM +0100, Martin Mokrejs wrote: >> Hi Sarah and Alan, >> I just saw 3.7.5 patches announced by Greg but I don't see this path in >> there. >> And, don't know but maybe this applies to older stable kernels as well? >> Where will this patch posted originally to linux-usb land? >> >> Ah, is that because the email was actually NOT sent to "stable@"? ;-) > > No. It's because the patch isn't in Linus's tree yet, which is one of > the requirements for a patch to be able to get into the stable kernel > releases. > > Please read the kernel file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for > more details if you are curious.
Thank you Greg! Aside from the fact that I do not know how much serious a memleak is and whether it is eligible for -stable. Other than that, it was helpful to read the file. Will see what happens. Meanwhile will continue running my patched kernel. ;-) Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
