> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 4:14 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
> [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in the handling of 
> channel
> offers
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:48:16PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:57 PM
> > > To: KY Srinivasan
> > > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected];
> > > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in the handling of
> channel
> > > offers
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:08:58PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > The channel state should be correctly set before registering the 
> > > > device. In
> the
> > > current
> > > > code the driver probe would fail for channels that have been rescinded 
> > > > and
> > > subsequently
> > > > re-offered. Fix the bug.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]>
> > > > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > What older kernel versions have this bug?  When did it show up?
> >
> > The patch that introduced the bug is:
> >
> > commit e68d2971d26577b932a16333ce165af98a96e068
> > Author: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]>
> > Date:   Thu May 23 12:02:32 2013 -0700
> >
> >     Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement multi-channel support
> >
> > I think 3.10 shipped with this bug.
> 
> Why do you think that, it's not what git shows:
>       $ git describe --contains e68d2971d26577b932a16333ce165af98a96e068
>       v3.11-rc1~157^2~64
> 
> So this is a 3.11-only thing, right?

My mistake; I was looking at some version of linux-3.10 code that had this 
problem and so I assumed it must have shipped
in 3.10.

Regards,

K. Y
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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