Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] net: wireless: ti: wl1251 add device tree support" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 5.4-stable tree?

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> Am 11.12.2019 um 15:24 schrieb Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 03:19:19PM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>> I have checked with Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst but not found out
>> what is failing.
>> 
>> Basically this belongs to a series to fix a bug
>> 
>> 81eef6ca9201 ("mmc: omap_hsmmc: Use dma_request_chan() for requesting DMA channel")
>> 
>> that exists since v4.7 and has been hidden by patches which came into the kernel over
>> the time.
> 
> I do not understand at all.
> 
> What does tagging all of these random wifi driver commits with cc:
> stable have to do with an old mmc commit from 4.7-rc1?

Here is also the cover letter for the series when they were originally submitted to fix linux-next:

https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1142016/

Unfortunately that gets lost by the transition to stable.

BR,
Nikolaus Schaller





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