Re: 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?

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:40:36PM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 01:35:46PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 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 
> > <stable@vger.kernel.org> and let me know why this patch should be
> > applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
> > seen again.
> 
> I should have adjusted the commit message. KERN_WARN doesn't exist so it
> actually fixes a build error as well as switching to pr_warn().

What build error?  I have not heard of this breaking the build on 4.9
for the past year, is it in some config that no one uses?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h