Re: Patch "i2c: core: report OF style module alias for devices registered via OF" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree

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On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:16:06AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On 05/27/2018 04:32 PM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     i2c: core: report OF style module alias for devices registered via OF
> > 
> > to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      i2c-core-report-of-style-module-alias-for-devices-registered-via-of.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> > 
> >
> 
> Please don't add this patch to any stable tree, since it requires all drivers
> to have a proper OF device ID table. This is true in mainline, but it may not
> be true in older stable kernels.

Thanks for letting me know, now dropped from 4.14 and 4.16 stable
queues.

greg k-h



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