Re: [PATCH 00/32] SMBus and Serial driver backport for Braswell

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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:07:04AM +0000, Chang, Rebecca Swee Fun wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 29 October, 2014 11:49 PM
> > To: Chang, Rebecca Swee Fun
> > Cc: LTS Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/32] SMBus and Serial driver backport for Braswell
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:41:03PM +0800, Chang Rebecca Swee Fun wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This series is about i801 SMBUS, cpufreq driver and serial 8250_dw
> > > driver backport for Braswell. The patches were cherry-picked from
> > > upstream kernel and they can be applied smoothly on stable kernel
> > > branch linux-3.14.y.
> > 
> > Really?  Why?
> > 
> > How do they fit into the stable kernel rules as documented in
> > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt?
> > 
> > confused,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Sorry for the confusion caused. I thought with no new features
> introduced and adding PCI IDs commits can be considered to enter
> stable kernel.

Yes, new ids is fine, but is that what this series really did?  Please
read the patches again and if that is all they do, feel free to resend
them.

> If that's not fit, can you help to add them to LTSI v3.14 queue? Sorry
> for the inconvenience caused.

If you want things added to the LTSI kernel, please email them to that
mailing list, not this one, as that's a totally separate project.

thanks,

greg k-h
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