Re: [PATCH 4.14.y] ata: libata: disallow dev-initiated LPM transitions to unsupported states

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 12:57:17PM +0000, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 07:27:05AM +0000, nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > You have forgotten the upstream commit ID.
> > And there is a message of cherry-pick -x. This is not necessary.
> > Could you please add commit ID and remove cherry-pick message?
> > 
> > commit 24e0e61db3cb86a66824531989f1df80e0939f26 upstream.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> >   Nobuhiro
> 
> Hello Nobuhiro,
> 
> The Linux 4.14 stable kernel maintainers are:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin
> 
> See:
> https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
> 
> I followed the instructions provided by Greg Kroah-Hartman in email:
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/2023092002-mobster-onset-2af9@gregkh/
> 
> 
> """
> To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
> 
> git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-4.14.y
> git checkout FETCH_HEAD
> git cherry-pick -x 24e0e61db3cb86a66824531989f1df80e0939f26
> # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
> git commit -s
> git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2023092002-mobster-onset-2af9@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 4.14.y' HEAD^..
> """
> 
> 
> I do find it slightly amusing that the instructions,
> provided by none other than the stable maintainer himself,
> which mentions linux-4.14.y, should not be good enough :)
> 
> I think you should bring up your concerns with the stable
> maintainers. If this is really an issue, perhaps you can
> convince them to update their instructions.
> 
> Until then, I will assume that the provided instructions
> are satisfactory.

They are, thank you for following them, I'll go queue these up now.

greg k-h