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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch "mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to retry
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Hi Greg,

On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 12:22:05 +0200
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 12:09:21PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to retry for error
> > 
> > to the 4.17-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary  
> 
> Nope, this broke the build everywhere, so I've dropped it from all trees
> now.  If you want this backported, please provide a working version.

That's not surprising, this patch depends on "mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002:
Change definition naming to retry write" which did not apply cleanly on
4.17.

To be honest, I was not convinced those 2 patches deserved to be
backported to stable releases, but Joakim and Ikegami thought they were
good candidate. I'll let Ikegami propose a revised version of those 2
patches that apply cleanly on 4.17 if he wants.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,

Boris