On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 02:56:28PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 04:27:21PM -0300, Rajiv Andrade wrote: > > > These changes circumvent some known hardware > > > bugs so that other kernel space stakeholders > > > can rely on it, without compromising system > > > stability. The best known example is a long > > > boot time when having IMA enabled. > > > > > > These changes are target stable-3.2.y. > > > > So you want all of these to go into 3.2-stable? > > > > Why all of them? They don't seem so "obvious" to me that they are all > > needed, why 6? > > At first glance, it looks like only the last one is really needed for > the stable tree, right? What are the other 5 for? Do they really > follow the rules in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt? > > greg k-h
My bad, 1,2,4 and 5 don't fall into the category of critical fixes, sorry. The only exception other than patch 6/6 is 3/6. It avoids the driver to register a malfunctioning device, which showed to be the one of the main cause of breaking suspends. Thanks, Rajiv -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
