Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 14:15:53 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to disable beacon filtering in iwlwifi in 3.13 and 3.14
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On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:23:58PM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/19/2014 10:41 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:40:34PM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I need to disable a feature on 3.13 and 3.14. But I don't have any
> >> patch upstream that I can point to as the patch that needs to be
> >> backported.
> >> We have a feature that is buggy in 3.13 and 3.14. We refactored (and
> >> fixed) this feature in 3.15 but the refactor is really not stable
> >> material, so basically, I can't backport the fix to 3.13 / 3.14. A
> >> user reported that disabling the feature solved (part of) his issues:
> >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72601.
> >> OTOH, I don't have any patch in linux.git that could be backported to
> >> do what I want in 3.13 / 3.14 - i.e. disable the feature.
> >> What is the right process here? I understand that this isn't covered
> >> by the "stable rules". So what should I do here?
> > 
> > Get the maintainer's approval to apply this patch and I can queue it up.
> 
> Ok - thanks. It might be worthwhile to add this "exception path" in the Documentation :)

No, it's such a rare exception, I don't want to "encourage" anyone to
ever do it by documenting it.

thanks,

greg k-h