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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 06:43:39PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin K. Petersen [mailto:martin.petersen@oracle.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:13 AM
> > 
> > 
> > Martin>	http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=138252394614920&w=2
> > 
> > Justin> Awesome, thank you!  This patch is over a month old, do you know
> > Justin> if is currently in mainline?
> > 
> > Nope. - James?
> > 
> > Could it possibly get added to 3.12.x -stable as well? I've patched
> against
> > 3.12.0 for now -- I'll let you know if there are any issues-- so far so
> > good, thanks again.
> > 
> > Justin.
> 
> Update:
> System uptime with the patch is 7+ days under extensive load at times and
> I've had no issues to date.
> I just checked the current linux git repo (3.13-rc2) and found this patch
> has not been included.
> 
> Please advise if any further testing or validation needs to be completed to
> help get this into -stable/-mainline.

It needs to get into Linus's tree first, after that, let
stable@vger.kernel.org know the git commit id and I'll be glad to queue
it up for a stable kernel release.

thanks,

greg k-h