Ben, I have decided pushing new hardware support to stable branch. Given the dependencies of the patches on intermediate wants I don’t want to take the risk of regressing. If there are any other criticial patches I will certainly push them into stable. As for 3.9, while new hardware support was available certain critical patches in relation to that went in after 3.9 cut was made. I will open bug again 3.9.5-1 and submit these patches
Thanks, Sarvesh -----Original Message----- From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 7:26 AM To: Bandi,Sarveshwar Cc: [email protected] Subject: Backported drivers On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 07:27 +0000, Bandi,Sarveshwar wrote: > Ben, > I would like to backport patches into 3.9 (support for new hardware > and critical bugs). Can I do it now? Or when is the right time to do > it? Critical bug fixes should be submitted for inclusion in kernel.org stable branches. And backporting new hardware support to unstable outside of a freeze period is generally unnecessary, as each new upstream release will quickly be uploaded there. If you really want to provide a tested backport from net-next to 3.9 then I'm not about to refuse your patches. But it would help many more Debian users if you would concentrate on backporting to our stable release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.
