On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 11:47 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andy Smith writes ("Re: Bug#850425: Debian bug #850425 - mpt3sas "swiotlb
> buffer is full" problem only under Xen"):
> > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 06:01:14PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Patches only make it into Linux upstream stable releases if someone
> > > pushes to get them in.
> >
> > Do you have any advice how I could push to get this to happen?
> >
> > Obviously I need this in order for Xen to be usable on my hardware
> > but we're talking mpt3sas driver here which is pretty common, so I
> > think it is quite desirable.
>
> Right. Well, you need to post to linux-kernel saying "this patch
> fixes such-and-such". You should:
>
> 1. git clone or git fetch the current master, which is
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git#master
> and check that it doesn't have the patch.It is better to use the subsystem's master branch. For many subsystems this is listed in MAINTAINERS; otherwise 'git log --merges directory/' should provide a clue. [...] > Backports to Debian are requested via the Debian BTS but you ideally > the patch would be in upstream stable trees. We're happy to take fixes once they've been accepted by the subsystem maintainer. > To get the patch into upstream stable trees, you need to send a > > similar kind of email, but to <[email protected]> (and the > maintainers for the subsystems, I think). [...] It is easier to do this by putting a 'Cc: [email protected]' pseudo-header in the patch (along with Signed-off-by etc). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug
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