On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 07:21:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:58:12PM -0700, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 3.10-stable tree. > > Stuff like this is very easy to miss when it comes in the middle of the > general spam about stable kernels; the review mails do get rather > vouluminous and unfortunately for me they end up going outside my normal > upstream mail flow so are even easier to miss than normal. How can I make it better stand out? I added the "WTF:" prefix to try to have it be more "noticed". > > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at > > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. > > > 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. > > This is needed because any attempt to fiddle directly with the register > cache data structures will at best corrupt memory and at worst crash > with modern kernels, the register cache it's trying to access directly > doesn't exist any more and hasn't for quite some time. Ok, thanks for the explaination, that makes sense. I'll go queue it up for the next stable kernel release. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html