Re: [PATCH 3.4 00/37] 3.4.79-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-04T22:10:10Z

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:52:21PM +0100, Guillaume Morin wrote:
> On 04 Feb 13:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.79 release.
> > There are 37 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > (snip)
> > Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> > rtc-cmos: Add an alarm disable quirk
>
> This is just one of the 3 patches posted by John Stultz on
> http://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/linux.git/shortlog/refs/heads/stable/3.4/timefix

I have no idea what that tree is, nor what I am supposed to do with it.

> The other 2 are backports of 6fdda9a9c5db367130cf32df5d6618d08b89f46a
> (timekeeping: Avoid possible deadlock from clock_was_set_delayed) and
> ec145babe754f9ea1079034a108104b6001e001c (timekeeping: fix 32-bit
> overflow in get_monotonic_boottime)
>
> Could you explain why there were not included?

Can you explain why I would include them?

> Are you simply planning to include these in 3.4.80?

I have no idea what people send me in the future...

> Sorry if this was discussed somewhere but the original thread does not
> say when/if they are going to be included in 3.4.

What original thread?

confused,

greg k-h