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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch "tty: serial: pl011: add ttyAMA for matching pl011
 console" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree
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On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 10:32:13AM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 09/05/17 10:21, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     tty: serial: pl011: add ttyAMA for matching pl011 console
> > 
> > to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      tty-serial-pl011-add-ttyama-for-matching-pl011-console.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> > 
> > 
> > From aea9a80ba98a0c9b4de88850260e9fbdcc98360b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 15:46:38 +0000
> > Subject: tty: serial: pl011: add ttyAMA for matching pl011 console
> > 
> > From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> > 
> > commit aea9a80ba98a0c9b4de88850260e9fbdcc98360b upstream.
> > 
> 
> I am not sure on the procedure for stable tree, but thought I will let
> you know the information on this.
> 
> Commit b767ad726c2a ("Revert "tty: serial: pl011: add ttyAMA for
> matching pl011 console"") reverted the above commit(commit in $subject)
> 
> It was properly fixed in the following upstream commits:
> 
> cf39bf58afda ("printk: fix double printing with earlycon")
> ad86ee2b8a47 ("printk: rename selected_console -> preferred_console")
> b077bafa2f38 ("printk: fix name/type/scope of preferred_console var")
> 
> Sorry for the trouble.

No trouble at all, thanks for letting me know.  I've dropped the tty
patch now and will look at adding the printk ones instead.

thanks,

greg k-h