On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 02:54:28PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.20-stable tree. > > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. > > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to > <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be > applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be > seen again. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > Hello Without this patch, we cannot boot a defconfig on ARC, and this is critical for testing ARC devices in kernelCI. Why this patch is not a real stable patch, it is a strong requirement for testing all future stable release on kernelCI. Note that another patch (touching defconfig) for booting defconfig is still missing and need to be also added to stable. (I will resend it today) Regards
