Re: [PATCH stable v4.15 1/3] media: staging: lirc_zilog: broken reference counting

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On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 11:47:51AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:15:28AM +0100, Sean Young wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:50:15AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 09:43:45AM +0100, Sean Young wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 09:52:28AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > What is the git commit id of this patch, and the other patches in this
> > > > > series and the 4.14 patch series that you sent out?
> > > > 
> > > > lirc_zilog was dropped in v4.16, so this can't be patched upstream.
> > > 
> > > Ah you are right, should we just ditch them here as well as they
> > > obviously do not work? :)
> > > 
> > > > > Please read:
> > > > >     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> > > > > for how to do this in a way that I can pick them up.
> > > > 
> > > > These patches have been tested with different types of hardware. Is there
> > > > anything else I can do to get these patches included?
> > > 
> > > When submitting patches to stable, you need to be explicit as to why
> > > they are needed, and if they are not upstream, why not.
> > > 
> > > In this case, for obviously broken code that is not used anymore (as
> > > it is gone in 4.16), why don't we just take the patch that removed the
> > > driver to the stable trees as well?
> > 
> > Well in v4.16 the ir-kbd-i2c.c driver can do what the lirc_zilog does in
> > v4.15 (and earlier), so it wasn't ditched as such. It's a case of replaced
> > by mainline.
> > 
> > Since I was getting bug reports on it, there must be users of the lirc_zilog
> > driver.
> > 
> > That being said, the old lirc_dev and lirc_zilog is pretty awful code.
> 
> Ok, I've queued these up for 4.14.y now.  4.15 is end-of-life, so I
> can't apply these patches there, sorry.

Ok, thanks.

I wonder why Ubuntu picked 4.15 as the kernel for their upcoming 18.04 LTS
release.


Sean



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