This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: xilfpga: Stop generating useless dtb.o to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mips-xilfpga-stop-generating-useless-dtb.o.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a5a92abbce56c41ff121db41a33b9c0a0ff39365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 23:10:35 +0200 Subject: MIPS: xilfpga: Stop generating useless dtb.o From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit a5a92abbce56c41ff121db41a33b9c0a0ff39365 upstream. A dtb.o is generated from nexys4ddr.dts but this is never used since it has been moved to mips/generic with commit b35565bb16a5 ("MIPS: generic: Add support for MIPSfpga"). Fixes: b35565bb16a5 ("MIPS: generic: Add support for MIPSfpga") Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.15+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19244/ Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/boot/dts/xilfpga/Makefile | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/mips/boot/dts/xilfpga/Makefile +++ b/arch/mips/boot/dts/xilfpga/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,2 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 dtb-$(CONFIG_FIT_IMAGE_FDT_XILFPGA) += nexys4ddr.dtb - -obj-y += $(patsubst %.dtb, %.dtb.o, $(dtb-y)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.16/mips-xilfpga-stop-generating-useless-dtb.o.patch queue-4.16/mips-xilfpga-actually-include-fdt-in-fitimage.patch