Em Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:04:20 +0100 Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 11:47:51AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:15:28AM +0100, Sean Young wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:50:15AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 09:43:45AM +0100, Sean Young wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 09:52:28AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > What is the git commit id of this patch, and the other patches in this > > > > > > series and the 4.14 patch series that you sent out? > > > > > > > > > > lirc_zilog was dropped in v4.16, so this can't be patched upstream. > > > > > > > > Ah you are right, should we just ditch them here as well as they > > > > obviously do not work? :) > > > > > > > > > > Please read: > > > > > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > > > > > for how to do this in a way that I can pick them up. > > > > > > > > > > These patches have been tested with different types of hardware. Is there > > > > > anything else I can do to get these patches included? > > > > > > > > When submitting patches to stable, you need to be explicit as to why > > > > they are needed, and if they are not upstream, why not. > > > > > > > > In this case, for obviously broken code that is not used anymore (as > > > > it is gone in 4.16), why don't we just take the patch that removed the > > > > driver to the stable trees as well? > > > > > > Well in v4.16 the ir-kbd-i2c.c driver can do what the lirc_zilog does in > > > v4.15 (and earlier), so it wasn't ditched as such. It's a case of replaced > > > by mainline. > > > > > > Since I was getting bug reports on it, there must be users of the lirc_zilog > > > driver. > > > > > > That being said, the old lirc_dev and lirc_zilog is pretty awful code. > > > > Ok, I've queued these up for 4.14.y now. 4.15 is end-of-life, so I > > can't apply these patches there, sorry. > > Ok, thanks. > > I wonder why Ubuntu picked 4.15 as the kernel for their upcoming 18.04 LTS > release. I've no idea. Maybe it might be due to spectre/meltdown? Anyway, they'll need to maintain it for a long time. So, I won't be surprised if they decide to take over LTS maintainership upstream. In the mean time, if the bug is seriously enough, you may consider sending them fixup patches directly, although I guess that they use a bugzilla instead for patches to the distro, with makes harder/painful to send them fixups. The Ubuntu FAQ (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/FAQ) points to an IRC freenode channel (#ubuntu-kernel). Perhaps you could ping them there and ask them about that. Thanks, Mauro
