[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "alpha: fix broken network checksum" has been added to staging queue
Mikulas Patocka
mpatocka at redhat.com
Tue Feb 18 16:47:54 UTC 2014
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Hi Mikulas,
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:36:23PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > That patch is needed on 3.12 and 3.13, you don't need to backport it to
> > older kernels.
> >
> > Mikulas
> >
>
> Thank you for your review. I have dropped this patch from the 3.11 kernel
> before releasing it (I saw discussion regarding this patch in the 3.12
> stable kernel).
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like I forgot to do the same for the 3.5 kernel and
> version 3.5.7.30 has been released with this patch. I will revert it for
> the next release (unless you believe this patch is harmless in this
> kernel, and there's not need to revert it).
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Luís
The patch is harmless on kernels <= 3.11. But it's not needed there.
Mikulas
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