On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:23:00PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 12:26 PM
To: Victor Miasnikov
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org; Jonathan Nieder; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; KY
Srinivasan
Subject: Re: Linux on Hyper-V 1) cd006086fa5d ata_piix: defer disks to the Hyper-
V drivers by default 2) db63a4c8115a libata: add a host flag to ignore detected
ATA device FW: use hv_storvsc instead of ata_piix to handle the IDE disks devices
( but not for the ...

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:17:33PM +0300, Victor Miasnikov wrote:

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Hi!

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cd006086fa5d ata_piix: defer disks to the Hyper-V drivers by default
and its prerequisite
db63a4c8115a libata: add a host flag to ignore detected ATA devices

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Sorry, but I don't see how this meets the rules for the stable trees, do you?  If

so, please show me how.

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About "how"  -- ask K.Y. Srinivasan

Hyper-V admins need _worked_ Linux v3.4.X / v3.3.X / v3.2.X

Please, _fix_ errors related "use hv_storvsc instead of ata_piix to
handle the IDE disks devices ( but not for the CD-ROM)"

Ok, I'll wait for KY to explain this.

Greg,

Clearly I cannot tell you anything about this that you don't know! Looking at the 
rules for stable tree patches, this patch does not satisfy the requirement that
the patch fix a bug since we are changing the behavior here of the ata driver to
accommodate Hyper-V. I don't know how much flexibility you have here for
taking patches that improve the general usability of Linux in different
environments. All I can say is that It will be nice to have this patch in previous stable 
releases.

Lots of things would be "nice", but as this doesn't meet the
stable_kernel_rules.txt rules, sorry, I can't take them.

greg k-h