From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 12:01:27 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Dinh Nguyen Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, sashal@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 for v4.19-stable 0/6] reset: make optional functions Message-ID: <20181206110127.GK19891@kroah.com> References: <20181204153448.6189-1-dinguyen@kernel.org> <20181204154559.GB14733@kroah.com> <26daf6e0-cb7c-eaf8-5e9e-cdfa0083b557@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <26daf6e0-cb7c-eaf8-5e9e-cdfa0083b557@kernel.org> List-ID: On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 11:27:48AM -0600, Dinh Nguyen wrote: > > > On 12/4/18 9:45 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 09:34:42AM -0600, Dinh Nguyen wrote: > >> Hi Greg/Sasha: > >> > >> Please apply this series to v4.9.y stable tree. The reason is that v4.9-stable > >> branch has this patch for stmmac ethernet driver: > >> > >> "6f37f7b62baa net: stmmac: socfpga: add additional ocp reset line for > >> Stratix10" > > > > How about we just revert this patch? It seems to be causing too many > > problems to require all of these "core" patches to be added. Would that > > resolve the issue? > > > > Sorry about that, the subject line should be "for v4.9-stable". > > I'm fine with reverting the patch. However, I can see that there are > other drivers calling devm_reset_control_get_optional() where these > patches may be needed. Ok, this will probably be best overall, so I've queued them up now. Also 2 of these needed to go into 4.14.y, so I put them there too. Next time, when you send backports that you had to modify, can you please sign-off on the patches as well? thanks, greg k-h