Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934586AbZLQDaI (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:30:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933084AbZLQD37 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:29:59 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:41331 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932602AbZLQD37 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:29:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:29:25 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Ike Panhc Cc: reinette chatre , "Zhu, Yi" , "John W. Linville" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Guy, Wey-Yi W" , "Winkler, Tomas" , "stable@kernel.org" Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: unify iwl_setup_rxon_timing Message-ID: <20091217032925.GA21374@kroah.com> References: <1260848710-5650-1-git-send-email-ike.pan@canonical.com> <20091215041500.GB31200@kroah.com> <4B273479.6050502@canonical.com> <20091215134943.GA11667@kroah.com> <20091215163100.GC8097@tuxdriver.com> <1260906168.9623.4.camel@rc-desk> <20091215194938.GA13297@kroah.com> <4B288232.4060901@canonical.com> <1260983101.9623.11.camel@rc-desk> <4B298ECF.7050009@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B298ECF.7050009@canonical.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1051 Lines: 28 On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:52:15AM +0800, Ike Panhc wrote: > reinette chatre wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 22:46 -0800, Ike Panhc wrote: > > > >> But Please consider applying the first patch (change IWL6000_UCODE_API_MAX > >> to v4) to 2.6.31-stable tree. It will be good to use v4 firmware on iwl6000. > > > > Please no. This will effectively enable 6000 series in 2.6.31. We did > > not target 2.6.31 for 6000 series enabling and more patches, which are > > in 2.6.32, are required for 6000 series to work well. > > > > Reinette > > > Got it, so backport any patch for iwl6000 to 2.6.31-stable is not reasonable. Bugfixes are fine, but that is not what this is. Please go read the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt to give you an idea of what we are expecting here. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/