Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f46.google.com ([209.85.218.46]:35575 "EHLO mail-oi0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751970AbdIAPCS (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2017 11:02:18 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f46.google.com with SMTP id n18so4015970oig.2 for ; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: RT2870 failure in kernel 4.12.8 To: Kalle Valo , Stanislaw Gruszka Cc: Helmut Schaa , linux-wireless References: <20170831075514.GA12340@redhat.com> <26ef3184-a19e-1bb7-7aa4-4e8647210763@lwfinger.net> <20170901085738.GA18397@redhat.com> <87y3pymqw2.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> From: Larry Finger Message-ID: (sfid-20170901_170222_583050_D5F019AD) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:02:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87y3pymqw2.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/01/2017 09:31 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: > Stanislaw Gruszka writes: > >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >>> Should the patch to wireless-drivers be annotated with a Stable reference so >>> that it is added to 4.12 and 4.13? >> >> According to Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt networking patches >> should not be marked cc:stable, instead a decent commit log should >> be written describing a bugfix. Which I believe it is done for >> this patch. > > But that's for net and net-next trees, not for wireless trees. With > wireless patches we use "Cc: stable@..." references. I see that this patch was just pushed for 4.14. I hope it got the Stable annotation at that time. Larry