----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnie...@gmail.com>
> To: "James Bottomley" <jbottom...@parallels.com>
> Cc: "CAI Qian" <caiq...@redhat.com>, "Hannes Reinecke" <h...@suse.de>,
> stable@vger.kernel.org, "Joel D. Diaz"
> <joeld...@us.ibm.com>, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <g...@kroah.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:24:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sd: Reshuffle init_sd to avoid crash
>
> Hi James,
>
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 03:59 -0500, CAI Qian wrote:
>
> >> Thanks for commenting, James. I was asked to get an ACK from the
> >> maintainers
> >> before Greg taking it in that is why I sent this email to you guys
> >> for
> >> confirmation.
> >
> > OK, I've cc'd Greg, because I don't think thay should be the
> > process.
>
> Here's the context:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1406955
>
> It's not the general process --- it's a sanity check to get some
> early
> filtering for patches that stable@ was otherwise receiving unvetted.
> :/
>
> The usual process is for a person proposing a patch for inclusion to
> mention the rationale and cc relevant people so they can object.
>
> [...]
> > I didn't think it would be seen in prior kernels. If you've seen
> > it in
> > testing 3.4, then I'd say that's good enough for me.
>
> Qian, have you had reports of this bug on 3.4.y or older?
Hi, yes. We saw it on a 2.6.32 Fedora-based kernel.
>
> Thanks, both,
> Jonathan
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