From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: mawilcox@microsoft.com, jani.nikula@intel.com, tiwai@suse.de,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error" failed to apply to 4.16-stable tree
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:09:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180417150922.GA23091@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180417090013.1cf67f17@lwn.net>
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 09:00:13AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:18:34 +0200
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.16-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
>
> So I'm a little confused...the reason it doesn't apply (in any of
> 4.1[456]) is that it's already there. Not quite sure why it's coming
> around on the guitar again?
It must have come in through some other tree so it's now in two
different commits? Anyway, no problem, it happens a lot for bugfixes,
thanks for checking and letting me know.
greg k-h
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2018-04-17 13:18 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error" failed to apply to 4.16-stable tree gregkh
2018-04-17 15:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-04-17 15:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
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