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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:27:56 +0100
From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
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Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: unify iwl_setup_rxon_timing
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:39:24AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 08:34:00AM -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>>
>>> I agree here. Not copying Reinette on this is just wrong. And blindly
>>> picking some patches and sending them for -stable even more.
>> I agree that Reinette should have been copied.  I'm not sure I agree
>> that sending the patches was wrong by itself.
> 
> I'm not saying it is wrong, but I agree, you need to copy the
> maintainer, as we would need their ack before being able to accept any
> type of backport.
> 
> Ike, the script, scripts/get_maintainer.pl is your friend here.

I should take some of the bashing here for not having been too
specific when pushing people to "send it to stable". As John said,
we are learning here.

I see that this gets improved.

Thanks,
Stefan

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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