Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:25:18 -0600 | From | David Ahern <> | Subject | Re: PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER has different values based on bitness |
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On 10/8/14, 9:22 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > I wonder how that works best, being on the receiving side of such requests > from time to time. > > I guess that to scale, that would be better done by: > > 1. Reporter tests if the patch applies (and works) on the desired > targets. > > 2. Reporter sends the request, with the above test results, to > stable@kernel.org, following whatever conventions are to get the > attention of the stable release maintainers.
My understanding is that subsystem maintainers do the stable requests.
A patch adjustment is needed for v3.4 and v3.10. I am willing to do the necessary patch mods for 3.4, 3.10, and 3.14.
David
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