From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756045Ab2ADPUD (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:20:03 -0500 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:43911 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755523Ab2ADPUA (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:20:00 -0500 Message-ID: <1325690398.2758.10.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Subject: RE: [50/75] mpt2sas crashes on shutdown From: James Bottomley To: "Nandigama, Nagalakshmi" Cc: Greg KH , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "David S. Miller" , "Moore, Eric" Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:19:58 -0600 In-Reply-To: References: <20120103223332.GA4112@kroah.com> <20120103223325.206012007@clark.kroah.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:23 +0530, Nandigama, Nagalakshmi wrote: > Greg, > As a fix to this issue, I posted the patch "[PATCH] mpt2sas: Remove > msix_table_backup which is required only for preproduction boards". > The patch in this mail will not address the complete issue. > > Please revert back this patch and add the patch "[PATCH] mpt2sas: > Remove msix_table_backup which is required only for preproduction > boards" to the stable kernels 3.0 and 3.1. So the problem is that you still haven't actually manage to produce a patch for the problem in the form required by the stable tree as listed in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt If you can't follow the guide, perhaps an example would work, so as a one time thing, I'll show you what such a patch should look like according to the rules of the stable kernel in reply to this email James