From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754511Ab3A3KFJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:05:09 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.19.201]:48843 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753688Ab3A3KFE (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:05:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:06:55 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Dirkjan Bussink Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: Prevent deadlock in n_gsm driver Message-ID: <20130130100655.GA31575@kroah.com> References: <4B03AD17-906A-4FBF-9F00-3F860395B229@nedap.com> <20130130051213.GA26675@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:55:00AM +0100, Dirkjan Bussink wrote: > > On 30 Jan 2013, at 06:12, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > It doesn't apply cleanly to the linux-next tree, can you refresh this > > and resend it so that I can apply it? If you want it backported to the > > stable kernel releases, we can only do that after it gets into Linus's > > tree, see the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for details > > about this. > > I've reapplied the patch to linux-next and submitted it just now. Is there > anything additionally that needs to be done to merge this back to stable > after this patch is applied? You need to add a "cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" line to the signed-off-by: area. I'll do it to the patch when I apply it. I found the problem, your email client stripped out the trailing spaces of the patch, which kept it from being applied as it wasn't a valid patch. I've edited it by hand this time, but next time please fix your email client. thanks, greg k-h