On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:48:17PM +0000, Jonas Mark (BT-FIR/ENG1) wrote: > Hi Kjetil, > > > I have been investigating an issue with eeprom that turned out to be an > > error present in 4.14, but fixed in master. > > > > The fix is > > commit 9a9e295e7c5c0409c020088b0ae017e6c2b7df6e > > Author: Wang Xin <xin.wang7@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Thu Aug 16 19:45:34 2018 +0200 > > > > eeprom: at24: fix unexpected timeout under high load > > > > A lot of stuff has changed in at24.c so a simple cherry-pick is not possible > > to do. I am not fully sure how to fix this in the actual version of at24.c, or > > if some other patches should be reverted instead, hence I have not > > written any patch myself usable for upstreaming. > > > > I am writing this to let you know that the 4.14 has an error, and maybe > > other branches as well, I have not checked. I am not sure what is the > > best way of handling it. > > Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are actually using > Linux 4.14 and the original patch was developed on 4.14. So we are > covered. > > For getting the patch on mainline we ported it to 4.19 and sent it to > linux-i2c. > > I do not know what is the right way to get the patch into the 4.14 LTS > maintenance branch. I propose you ask that question on the linux-i2c You (or Kjetil) could send the v4.14-patch to the stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a line added to the commit message: === commit <sha1_id of the v4.19 patch> upstream. === Would be great if the i2c list would be added when this gets submitted, too. I added the i2c list now, because there is much value in this conversation. > mailing list. If needed I can then supply a patch which applies to 4.14. > Please keep mark.jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxx and xin.wang7@xxxxxxxxxxxx in CC so > Xin and I will notice your post. > > Greetings, > Mark
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