Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:41396 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754332Ab2DNPwD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:52:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120414111044.4930a5f3@stein> References: <20120412011313.GA23764@kroah.com> <20120412144626.GA14868@kroah.com> <20120413105746.10ffb120@stein> <20120413154216.476a02ac@stein> <20120413230525.GA13995@burratino> <20120414111044.4930a5f3@stein> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:52:00 +0300 Message-ID: (sfid-20120414_175226_185966_998834DD) Subject: Re: [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review From: Felipe Contreras To: Stefan Richter Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Adrian Chadd , Greg KH , Sergio Correia , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-wireless Mailing List , Sujith Manoharan , "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" , "John W. Linville" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Stefan Richter wrote: > On Apr 14 Felipe Contreras wrote: >> Of course, although the difference with the stable kernel would be >> very small if the only thing added is an extra rule for acceptance: >> "It reverts an earlier patch to 'stable'." > > It looks like a small difference on the surface, but it isn't.  It would > mean "yes, we /do/ forward ports in -stable too in some cases". How? There's a lot reverts in mainline, where do they come from? Are they forward ports from some ghost trees? If you drop a patch from the stable review queue before it gets into a stable release, and then that patch is reverted from mainline, is that also a "forward port"? -- Felipe Contreras