This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xtensa: move parse_tag_fdt out of #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD 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: xtensa-move-parse_tag_fdt-out-of-ifdef-config_blk_dev_initrd.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 4ab18701c66552944188dbcd0ce0012729baab84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 09:37:34 -0800 Subject: xtensa: move parse_tag_fdt out of #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> commit 4ab18701c66552944188dbcd0ce0012729baab84 upstream. FDT tag parsing is not related to whether BLK_DEV_INITRD is configured or not, move it out of the corresponding #ifdef/#endif block. This fixes passing external FDT to the kernel configured w/o BLK_DEV_INITRD support. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ static int __init parse_tag_initrd(const __tagtable(BP_TAG_INITRD, parse_tag_initrd); +#endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD */ + #ifdef CONFIG_OF static int __init parse_tag_fdt(const bp_tag_t *tag) @@ -145,8 +147,6 @@ __tagtable(BP_TAG_FDT, parse_tag_fdt); #endif /* CONFIG_OF */ -#endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD */ - static int __init parse_tag_cmdline(const bp_tag_t* tag) { strlcpy(command_line, (char *)(tag->data), COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/xtensa-move-parse_tag_fdt-out-of-ifdef-config_blk_dev_initrd.patch