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Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 10:35:29 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: brianp@vmware.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, syeh@vmware.com
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: Fix host logging / guestinfo
 reading error paths" failed to apply to 4.16-stable tree
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On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 05:15:37PM +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 05/26/2018 03:10 PM, 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>.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> The IMO best option is to cherry-pick commit
> 
> 6073a09210e06 "drm/vmwgfx: Use kasprintf"
> by Himanshu Jha. It doesn't fix anything but is small and makes the below
> patch apply cleanly.

That worked, thanks!

greg k-h