Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:11:43 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] dm-crypt: plain64 IV support for -stable? |
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:25:11AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Would it be possible to add commit 61afef614b013ee1b767cdd10325acae1db1f4d2 > "dm crypt: add plain64 iv" to -stable?
Which -stable tree? .27, .32, .35, or any/all of them? Please be more specific when asking for this in the future.
> Without it, users of LTS kernels like 2.6.32 are missing important > functionality (as in: might not be able to mount some LUKS volumes > created on newer kernels).
Also note that this patch really looks like a "new feature", not a bugfix or anything that matches up with what Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt defines. So I don't think that it really is something to add to a stable kernel.
thanks,
greg k-h
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