This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: Octeon: Fix logging messages with spurious periods after newlines to the 4.9-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-octeon-fix-logging-messages-with-spurious-periods-after-newlines.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sun May 27 17:33:38 CEST 2018 From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 23:04:58 -0800 Subject: MIPS: Octeon: Fix logging messages with spurious periods after newlines From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit db6775ca6e0353d2618ca7d5e210fc36ad43bbd4 ] Using a period after a newline causes bad output. Fixes: 64b139f97c01 ("MIPS: OCTEON: irq: add CIB and other fixes") Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17886/ Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c +++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c @@ -2271,7 +2271,7 @@ static int __init octeon_irq_init_cib(st parent_irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(ciu_node, 0); if (!parent_irq) { - pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't acquire parent_irq for %s\n.", + pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't acquire parent_irq for %s\n", ciu_node->name); return -EINVAL; } @@ -2283,7 +2283,7 @@ static int __init octeon_irq_init_cib(st addr = of_get_address(ciu_node, 0, NULL, NULL); if (!addr) { - pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't acquire reg(0) %s\n.", ciu_node->name); + pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't acquire reg(0) %s\n", ciu_node->name); return -EINVAL; } host_data->raw_reg = (u64)phys_to_virt( @@ -2291,7 +2291,7 @@ static int __init octeon_irq_init_cib(st addr = of_get_address(ciu_node, 1, NULL, NULL); if (!addr) { - pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't acquire reg(1) %s\n.", ciu_node->name); + pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't acquire reg(1) %s\n", ciu_node->name); return -EINVAL; } host_data->en_reg = (u64)phys_to_virt( @@ -2299,7 +2299,7 @@ static int __init octeon_irq_init_cib(st r = of_property_read_u32(ciu_node, "cavium,max-bits", &val); if (r) { - pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't read cavium,max-bits from %s\n.", + pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't read cavium,max-bits from %s\n", ciu_node->name); return r; } @@ -2309,7 +2309,7 @@ static int __init octeon_irq_init_cib(st &octeon_irq_domain_cib_ops, host_data); if (!cib_domain) { - pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't irq_domain_add_linear()\n."); + pr_err("ERROR: Couldn't irq_domain_add_linear()\n"); return -ENOMEM; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/mips-octeon-fix-logging-messages-with-spurious-periods-after-newlines.patch