[PATCH v2 0/3] Fix SATA disk hotplug for Armada 370/XP SoCs
Jason Cooper
jason at lakedaemon.net
Tue Jan 14 11:08:00 EST 2014
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:59:45AM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
...
> The linux-stable team isn't the only people who find this information
> useful. Distros maintaining older kernels would find it very helpful
> when going through -stable patches to know easily if a patch should be
> backported further, say to v3.8.
And yes, I'm aware that -stable is actively supporting farther back than
what we are discussing here. I was refuting the specific argument as
opposed to correcting wrong assumptions.
In general, it's better to be accurate regarding 'Fixes:' commits than
assuming no one cares about anything older than the oldest -stable
kernel.
thx,
Jason.
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