From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 01:31:36 +0100
> On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 01:41 -0400, David Miller wrote: >> From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 02:09:05 -0300 >> >> > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 03:33:06AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> >> 3.2.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me >> >> know. >> >> >> >> ------------------ >> >> >> >> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> [ Upstream commit 7d3d43dab4e978d8d9ad1acf8af15c9b1c4b0f0f ] >> >> >> >> We already synthesize events in register_netdevice_notifier and >> >> synthesizing >> >> events in unregister_netdevice_notifier allows to us remove the need for >> >> special case cleanup code. >> >> >> >> This change should be safe as it adds no new cases for existing callers >> >> of unregiser_netdevice_notifier to handle. >> > >> > It seems this introduces a regression later fixed by commit >> > c57b54684060c8aced64a5b78ff69ff289af97b9 >> >> Indeed, but thankfully that only hits people who try to unload the >> pktgen module which is a pretty small group of people :) > > Surely we ought to avoid introducing a known regression. Though I also > see that that the above fix for pktgen was incorrect and the > fix-of-the-fix (d4b1133558e0d417342d5d2c49e4c35b428ff20d) is not in > mainline yet. But if the latter reaches mainline by Sunday, perhaps I > could add them both? I just asked Linus to pull it in. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
