On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:23:12 PDT (-0700), merker@xxxxxxxxxx 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.
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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 ]
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.
I agree.
