Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:45:42 -0800 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:37:49PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > Linus,
> > > > 
> > > > please pull hrtimer fixes from:
> > > > 
> > > >   ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git master
> > > > 
> > > > The first patch fixes an overflow problem, which is caused by missing
> > > > checks in the relative to absolute time conversion in the futex
> > > > code. It got caught by the WARN_ON() in clockevents_program_event().
> > > > 
> > > > The second patch prevents a false positive of the same WARN_ON().
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes are confirmed to solve http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/137
> > > 
> > > Are one of these needed in the stable tree?
> > 
> > Yes, both are for stable as well. The report was against 2.6.24 stable
> 
> Cool.  But the stable team deals with individual patches, not git pulls.
> Can you send us the individual patches when they hit Linus's tree?
> 

Confused.  That assertion appears to conflict with your earlier

 "you can just add a: Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> to the signed-off-by
  area, and we (the stable tree developers) will get an automated email
  when it goes into Linus's tree, with the git changelog entry."
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