On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 11:55:55AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 01/12/20 11:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Ok, I will go drop this patch from 4.14, 4.9, and 4.4. Or, should the > > needed pre-requisite patch be properly backported there instead? > > I would just drop it. It was not reported in five years so it's quite > unlikely that people will see the bug. Ok, will go drop them. > > And was it marked somewhere that this patch depended on that one and I > > just missed it? > > I don't see anything in stable-kernel-rules.rst about how to mark such > semantic conflicts, so no, it wasn't marked. (The commit message does say > "thanks to the previous patch", but I don't expect you or your scripts to > notice that!). If you look at the section on https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html that starts with "Additionally, some patches..." it will show that you can add "#" comments on the cc: stable line to let me know pre-requsite commits if you know them, and want to do that in the future. thanks, greg k-h
