Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2 1/2] virtio-net: don't respond to cpu hotplug notifier if we're not ready

From: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:47:14 +1030

David Miller <[email-masked]> writes:
> From: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:30:15 +1030
>
>> Asking people to express 'CC: stable' in words is error-prone; if Dave
>> wants to filter it, he's quite capable.
>
> Filtering it one time is one thing.
>
> Potentially acting on that filter 100 or so times a day...
>
> That's completely another.

I don't see the difference between reacting to:

> The patch were need for 3.10 and above.

And:

CC: [email-masked] # 3.10+

Except the latter is the standard form which everyone else uses.

Do you want awk script to turn the latter into the former?  Would that
really help?

Confused,
Rusty.