From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:53:29 -0700

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 08:26:52PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 20:09 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:35:33PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > > On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 17:35 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>> > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>> > > >     net: filter: Use WARN_RATELIMIT
>> > > []
>> > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable 
>> > > > tree,
>> > > > please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>> > > Is this sort of patch really good for stable?
>> > The network maintainer thought it was.
>> 
>> Go David.
>> 
>> > > If so, then how far back should it go?
>> > > That WARN_ON goes back to 2006 with commit 9369986306d46.
>> > So it should go into the .32 and other -longterm kernels, right?
>> 
>> If you want to verify and maintain them, sure, enjoy.
> 
> Unfortunately those kernels didn't have WARN_RATELIMIT() so I'll not
> backport it.

There are 4 patches in the series I submitted to -stable, one of which
adds the WARN_RATELIMIT() facility.

This one that uses WARN_RATELIMIT() in the networking, is only one of
them.

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