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On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 10:39 +0800, Li Zhong wrote:
> On 二, 2014-10-07 at 08:33 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > On 07.10.2014 [17:28:38 +1100], Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 16:26 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > > > On 03.10.2014 [10:50:20 +1000], Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 14:13 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > > > > > Ben & Michael,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > What's the status of these patches?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Been in my next for a week :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux.git/log/?h=next
> > > > 
> > > > Ah ok, thanks -- I wasn't following your tree, my fault. 
> > > 
> > > Not really your fault, I hadn't announced my trees existence :)
> > > 
> > > > Do we want these to go back to 3.17-stable, as they fix some annoying splats
> > > > during boot (non-fatal afaict, though)?
> > > 
> > > Up to you really, I don't know how often/bad they were. I haven't added CC
> > > stable tags to the commits, so if you want them in stable you should send them
> > > explicitly.
> > 
> > I think they occur every boot, unconditionally, on pseries. Doesn't
> > prevent boot, just really noisy. I think it'd be good to get them into
> > -stable.
> > 
> > Li Zhong, can you push them once they get sent upstream?
> 
> I guess I only need to send the first two patches to stable? 

Probably. It's not clear from the changelog how serious a problem it fixes.

See Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

cheers