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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mtd: spi-nor: Changes for 4.11
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On 02/10/2017 07:39 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Am 10.02.2017 um 03:46 schrieb Brian Norris:
>> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:09:39AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:36:10AM +0100, Cyrille Pitchen wrote:
>>>> Le 08/02/2017 à 06:52, Heiner Kallweit a écrit :
>>>>> Am 08.02.2017 um 02:09 schrieb Marek Vasut:
>>>>>> On 02/07/2017 04:31 PM, Cyrille Pitchen wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> Heiner Kallweit (1):
>>>>>>>       mtd: m25p80: consider max message size in m25p80_read
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot say I'm super-happy about this particular patch, still ...
>>>>>>
>>>>> W/o it at least the fsl-espi driver is broken for transfers >= 64kB.
>>>>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> One thing I do object to: why is this change marked for stable? It's not
>>> our fault you broke your duct-taped-together SPI driver in 4.9. I don't
>>> think backporting features is the way to satisfy the -stable
>>> requirements. Maybe some reverts would be the right way...
>>
> The patch was submitted in Aug 2016 already and there was also an inquiry
> to get it into 4.9:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-September/069363.html
> 
> But due to whatever circumstances nothing happened and there was no
> response.

Is that a bugfix ?

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut