Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] pinctrl: armada-37xx: Fix gpio interrupt setup" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree?

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On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 01:41:09PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>  
>  On jeu., sept. 21 2017, <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree.
> >
> > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
> 
> When I submitted the patch, I thought it fixed a commit which was there
> in 4.13 but actually it was introduced during the 4.14 merge window.
> 
> However I thought the "Fixes:" flag was used to automatically apply it
> on the correct kernel (here it was 4.14).

Fair enough, I wanted to check as 4.14 isn't released yet, and it seemed
a bit odd to see a stable tag for it just yet :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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