On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:51:14AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On 04/18/2017 11:00 AM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From 5a0722b898f851b9ef108ea7babc529e4efc773d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:55:08 -0500
> > Subject: tty: pl011: use "qdf2400_e44" as the earlycon name for QDF2400 E44
> >
> > Define a new early console name for Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies
> > QDF2400 SOCs affected by erratum 44, instead of piggy-backing on "pl011".
> > Previously, to enable traditional (non-SPCR) earlycon, the documentation
> > said to specify "earlycon=pl011,<address>,qdf2400_e44", but the code was
> > broken and this didn't actually work.
> >
> > So instead, the method for specifying the E44 work-around with traditional
> > earlycon is "earlycon=qdf2400_e44,<address>". Both methods of earlycon
> > are now enabled with the same function.
> >
> > Fixes: e53e597fd4c4 ("tty: pl011: fix earlycon work-around for QDF2400 erratum 44")
> > Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.11
>
> Is there a way to know which stable kernel this patch will be added to? I
> don't see it in 4.11.1, even though this patch was posted before 4.11.1 was
> released.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c?h=linux-4.11.y
I have a queue of 300+ patches to get into the 4.11.y kernel tree,
please be patient as I dig through them...
You will be notified when it is queued up.
Is there some special rush for this to get in right now?
greg k-h