Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:29:39 +0100 | | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | | Subject | Re: [stable] [patch 34/38] kbuild: allow -fstack-protector to take effect | |
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:53:56PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:41:15AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:53:49PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:46:17PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:31:33 -0800
> > > > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 2.6.24-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let
> > > > > us know.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > not ready for -stable yet. if ever for backporting (doubtful)
> > >
> > > Ok, dropped from -stable, thanks.
> >
> > For the record I agree with Arjan that it is not yet -stable ready.
>
> Ok. Then who sent this to the stable alias in the first place?
>
> Sam, you added the "cc: stable@kernel.org" to the patch, and that caused
> it to be sent to us when it went into Linus's tree. If you don't want
> things like this to go into the -stable tree, don't mark it as such :)
When I added the tag I was convinced this was -stable material.
Only later the testing done by James revealed that this was bogus
and I had long forgotten I added -stable to the patch.
Sam
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