> -----Original Message----- > From: Sudip Mukherjee [mailto:sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 5:19 AM > To: Greg KH; Limonciello, Mario > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: 6ed66c3ce095ae65bbc976b5817c318653745736 for 4.14-stable > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 08:30:10AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 08:35:17PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > I think you have missed 6ed66c3ce095ae65bbc976b5817c318653745736 for > > > the v4.14-stable tree. No backport needed, it will apply cleanly. > > > > No, I didn't miss it, it failed to apply to 4.17.y and I sent out > > rejection emails. Why would I apply it to 4.14.y if it is not in > > 4.17.y? > > But it was added in v4.17-rc4.6 via: > 7fe3fa3b5ec8 ("platform/x86: Kconfig: Fix dell-laptop dependency chain.") > > in v4.16.8 via: > 0897d3c34dae ("platform/x86: Kconfig: Fix dell-laptop dependency chain.") > > missing only in v4.14.y. > > The attached patch should be good for 4.14-stable. > > But now I have a little confusion here, the commit says that it fixes > 32d7b19bad96 which was added in v4.16. So, is it needed in 4.14.y? > > Added Mario for his comments. > > Although it will apply to 4.14.y I don't believe it's needed there. This problem was related to the split to multiple modules for dell-smbios which happened later.
