From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:40854 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752835AbbETP7i (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2015 11:59:38 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6148820B26 for ; Wed, 20 May 2015 11:59:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 08:59:36 -0700 From: Greg KH To: William Dauchy Cc: "David E. Box" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , =?utf-8?B?4oCcc3RhYmxlQHZnZXIua2VybmVsLm9yZ+KAnQ==?= Subject: Re: stable fix for IOSF in Kconfig Message-ID: <20150520155936.GA24092@kroah.com> References: <20150520122747.GA7410@gandi.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150520122747.GA7410@gandi.net> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 02:27:47PM +0200, William Dauchy wrote: > Hello, > > Using a stable 3.14.x kernel, I had an issue where I was unable to set > IOSF_MBI as builtin. > > I applied the following commit on top of my 3.14.x: > > commit aa8e4f22ab7773352ba3895597189b8097f2c307 > Author: David E. Box > Date: Wed Aug 27 14:40:39 2014 -0700 > x86/iosf: Add Kconfig prompt for IOSF_MBI selection > > This fixes my issue. > Do you think it's a good candidate for stable branches? Yes, that makes sense, I'll queue it up soon. > we may also consider the following commit for stable: > commit ced3ce760b8df08e8bafba44f6b40407df2d0402 > Author: David E. Box > Date: Wed Sep 17 22:13:50 2014 -0700 > x86/platform/intel/iosf: Add better description of IOSF driver in config Does this fix a problem? I don't mind it, but is it really needed? thanks, greg k-h