On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:34:24PM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > The patch below does not apply to the 3.17-stable tree. > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit > id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. Did you follow the annotations in the commit message? The Canonical-run 3.16.x stable seemed to pick them up just fine. Or did I get the syntax wrong? (I still owe you an update to Documentation/stable-kernel-rules.txt, by the way.) > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ > > From a5b7616c55e188fe3d6ef686bef402d4703ecb62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 ... > Fixes: 03e296f613af ("mtd: m25p80: use the SPI nor framework") > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.16.x: 32f1b7c8352f: mtd: move support for struct flash_platform_data into m25p80 > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.16.x: 90e55b3812a1: mtd: m25p80: get rid of spi_get_device_id > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.16.x: 70f3ce0510af: mtd: spi-nor: make spi_nor_scan() take a chip type name, not spi_device_id > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.16.x I am able to successfully checkout your linux-3.17.y and: git cherry-pick 32f1b7c8352f git cherry-pick 90e55b3812a1 git cherry-pick 70f3ce0510af git cherry-pick a5b7616c55e1 Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html