On 09/01/17 09:45, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:03:31AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> Right (disclaimer: I didn't add a fixes tag), you confused me with the stable
> kernel rules question.
Sorry, my bad. I'd lost track of when the change went in and thought for
some reason it was longer ago than that and lazily didn't check.
>
> So not on v4.9, until someone tries to sneak f438b9da into LTSI ;-)
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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