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. _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
