This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled can: gs_usb: change active_channels's type from atomic_t to u8 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: can-gs_usb-change-active_channels-s-type-from-atomic_t-to-u8.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.