From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:59595 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751732AbdK0Mfk (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:35:40 -0500 Subject: WTF: patch "[PATCH] MIPS: pci: Remove KERN_WARN instance inside the mt7620 driver" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.9-stable tree? To: john@phrozen.org, jhogan@kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: From: Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:35:46 +0100 Message-ID: <1511786146225230@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.9-stable tree. I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >>From 8593b18ad348733b5d5ddfa0c79dcabf51dff308 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Crispin Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:29:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: pci: Remove KERN_WARN instance inside the mt7620 driver Switch the printk() call to the prefered pr_warn() api. Fixes: 7e5873d3755c ("MIPS: pci: Add MT7620a PCIE driver") Signed-off-by: John Crispin Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: # 4.5+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15321/ Signed-off-by: James Hogan diff --git a/arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c b/arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c index 22e4c22e750b..1a0b80a1cc4a 100644 --- a/arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c +++ b/arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int wait_pciephy_busy(void) else break; if (retry++ > WAITRETRY_MAX) { - printk(KERN_WARN "PCIE-PHY retry failed.\n"); + pr_warn("PCIE-PHY retry failed.\n"); return -1; } }