On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:03:31AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:25 AM, <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.9-stable tree.
> >
> > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
>
> s@stable_kernel_rules.txt@process/stable-kernel-rules.rst@g
>
> Time to update the scripts? ;-)
Ah, yes, thanks, will go do that now.
> > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
> > <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
> > applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
> > seen again.
>
> I don't mind if you drop it, but it does fix a (obscure) build error.
It does on 4.9? Not according to the patch itself:
Fixes: f438b9da (" drivers: iio: ti_am335x_adc: add dma support")
$ git describe --contains f438b9da
v4.10-rc1~148^2~367^2~6^2
So why should this be applied to 4.9?
thanks,
greg k-h
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