LP:869502 Patch Applied Upstream

[Tim Gardner]

On 01/04/2012 08:48 AM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 10:46 AM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We discussed bug 869502[1] in the top ten bugs meeting yesterday. I did
>> some searches and found the patch that fixes this bug has been applied
>> to Linus' tree in commit:
>>
>> ed66ba472a742cd8df37d7072804b2111cdb1014
>>
>> It also appears this patch is in the process of being applied to the
>> upstream stable kernels[2].
>>
>> I assume the patch will make it in to Precise when we rebase. Does an
>> SRU bug need to be created to get this patch in to Oneiric?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/869502
>> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/22/616
>>
>
> Also, I can build an Oneiric test kernel with this patch applied and
> have bug reporters affected by this bug, confirm the issue is resolved.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>

We can cherry-pick this patch now (if you propose it on the list) and 
add BugLink info to the commit log so that Launchpad correctly updates 
the bug report status. This patch will then be ignored (as having 
already been applied) when it bubbles down through stable.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com