On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 08:23:12PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:13:02AM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > RISC-V: include linux/ftrace.h in asm-prototypes.h > > > > to the 4.4-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: > > risc-v-include-linux-ftrace.h-in-asm-prototypes.h.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > [...] > > From: James Cowgill <jcowgill@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 22:57:56 +0100 > > Subject: RISC-V: include linux/ftrace.h in asm-prototypes.h > > > > From: James Cowgill <jcowgill@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > [ Upstream commit 57a489786de9ec37d6e25ef1305dc337047f0236 ] > > Hello, > > I guess it doesn't make much sense to add this patch to the 4.4 > and 3.18 stable trees. The patch creates an arch-specific header > (arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h), but the first mainline > kernel with support for the RISC-V architecture has been kernel > 4.15. Sorry for the followup-to-self, I've only just received similar emails concerning the 4.9, 4.14 and 4.18 trees - of course the same reasoning applies there as well, so I think 4.18 is the only current stable tree for which adding the patch makes sense. Regards, Karsten -- Gem. Par. 28 Abs. 4 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung sowie der Weitergabe meiner personenbezogenen Daten für Zwecke der Werbung sowie der Markt- oder Meinungsforschung.
