Re: Stable inclusion of "mfd: lpc_ich: Do not touch SPI-NOR write protection bit on Haswell/Broadwell"

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On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 02:15:24PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:03:13PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:56:45PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Can following commit be included in stable kernel releases starting from
> > > v4.11?
> > > 
> > >   d9018976cdb6eefc62a7ba79a405f6c9661b08a7 ("mfd: lpc_ich: Do not touch SPI-NOR write protection bit on Haswell/Broadwell")
> > > 
> > > This makes sure older kernels will not accidentally lose the BIOS
> > > settings.
> > 
> > I would like to, but it fails to apply to the 4.9, 4.4, or even 3.18
> > stable trees :(
> > 
> > Can you provide a working backport for the trees you think it is needed
> > on?
> 
> Hmm, looks like it is only needed for v4.13 stable (in case it gets yet
> another update, seems that v4.13 stable is EOL'ed). It should apply as is.

4.13 is end-of-life, sorry.

greg k-h



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