Comment 16 for bug 1094173

> If the patch works on 3.7 you only need to send the commit sha1 (in
> the 3.8-rc upstream) of it with a link to this bugzilla and a
> tested-by to <email address hidden> It will the automatically trickle
> down to stable kernels and distro kernel builds.

Thanks for the advice. I have had an experience, though, with a stable
kernel maintainer who wanted the submitted patches to apply with no
manual effort, not even trivial context changes. The patch in question
wouldn't apply to 3.5.7.y without context changes, so I wanted to be safe.

BTW, is this patch relevant for kernels 3.4 and older? The linked
bugzillas gave me the impression that the bugs addressed by this commit
have only been witnessed in kernels 3.5 and later, and of those, it
appears that only 3.7 is maintained on kernel.org. (3.5.7.y comes from
Ubuntu's "extended longterm kernel" effort).