Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] [request for stable 3.10 inclusion] fix BE8 issue

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 07:02:23PM +0800, shengyong wrote:
> 
> 
> 在 2014/12/17 14:35, Greg KH 写道:
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 06:22:43AM +0000, Sheng Yong wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> Linux 3.10.y does not support BE8 well, in result, we meet BE8 issues when
> >> enabling it. So we hope that these BE8-related patchset can be merged to
> >> stable 3.10.y to make BE8 avaliable.
> > 
> > What is "BE8"?
> > 
> > And how is this a bugfix series?  It really looks like it is a new
> > feature you are asking to be backported here, which isn't ok for stable
> > kernels, as is explained in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
> Yes, I agree that BE8 is a feature.

Great, patch set now dropped :)

> But in the situation that CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN and CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
> are turned on, this feature makes kernel go wrong. So I'm confused about
> whether BE8 is a fix or not?  And as I mentioned in the last mail that
> commits a2ad9bef and 9f6bb0c2 in 3.10.61 seem trying to fix problems
> caused by BE8. So I think BE8 is a problem here.

What specific patches went in that you are concerned about here?
Perhaps they should not have been applied, and I only did so because
there were no conflicts.

thanks,

greg k-h
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