RE: 6ed66c3ce095ae65bbc976b5817c318653745736 for 4.14-stable

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> -----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.





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