On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:40:36PM +0000, James Hogan wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 01:35:46PM +0100, 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/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. > > > > 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 should have adjusted the commit message. KERN_WARN doesn't exist so it > actually fixes a build error as well as switching to pr_warn(). What build error? I have not heard of this breaking the build on 4.9 for the past year, is it in some config that no one uses? :) thanks, greg k-h