Re: Patch "ACPI / APEI: Remove arch_apei_flush_tlb_one()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:51:41AM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 25/11/17 13:54, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     ACPI / APEI: Remove arch_apei_flush_tlb_one()
> > 
> > to the 4.9-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:
> >      acpi-apei-remove-arch_apei_flush_tlb_one.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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.
> 
> I don't think this patch should applied to the stable trees:
> 
> This patch is cleanup following 'ACPI / APEI: Replace ioremap_page_range() with
> fixmap', which failed to apply to this tree. Having this patch will lead to
> build-breakage with exotic Kconfig options!

"exotic" is just any normal x86 build :)

This was dropped from all of the stable trees already because the
previous patch did not apply.

thanks,

greg k-h